“I’ve been an atheist since I was about 7 years old.” …
Publications
Sylvia Plath
“I don’t believe in God as a kind father in the sky. I don’t believe that the meek will inherit the earth: The meek get ignored and trampled.” …
Seth MacFarlane
“I do not believe in God. I’m an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as …
Zadie Smith
“That goodness does exist, that’s my god, it’s enough.” …
Georges Bizet
“Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.” …
Marcellin Berthelot
“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.’ ” …
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.” …
Alexander Buchner
“Before [his brother Ludwig’s book] “Force and Matter” what did the world at large know then of the first achievements of science? The vast majority were sunk in their blind faith …