“In a letter addressed to the Rome Congress of Freethinkers in 1904 [Berthelot] scorns ‘the poison vapours of superstition’ and longs for a ‘reign of reason.’ ” …
Publications
Anne Tyler
“I remember when I was 7, making crucial decisions about the kind of person I was going to be. That’s also the age when I figured out that, oh, someday …
Max Stirner
“Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius, and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.” …
Lakshmi Sahgal
“I have always been an atheist. My parents were atheists. It doesn’t bother me if somebody is religious. My problem is when religion is used to institutionalize other things.” …
Eugenie Scott
“My personal view is I’m not religious. I don’t accept the Christian view of things.” …
Kevin Kline
“You see, I do exist.” …
Jon Huertas
“I treat people good for goodness’ sake, not because I’m going to be rewarded in an afterlife.” …
George Santayana (Quote)
“Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedanism, extermination …
Johnny Carson
“[I]t appears that religion was a more casual affair in the Carson household than it was in the Welks’, and Johnny apparently never made church-going part of his adult lifestyle …
