“As a historian, I confess to a certain amusement when I hear the Judeo-Christian tradition praised as the source of our concern for human rights. In fact, the great religious …
Publications
P.G. Wodehouse
“In March 1972 [Wodehouse] was invited to attend Sunday service with President Nixon, but turned it down as ‘too much of a strain.’ He had no desire to leave Basket …
Michael Lewis
CESAR [a Romanian priest]: But they are used to having visitors, so it shouldn’t be a problem. But what is your religion?LEWIS: I don’t have one.CESAR: But you believe in God?LEWIS: …
Katha Pollitt
“I’m going to close with the thought that nothing good will happen if people don’t fight for it. And that’s where you all come in — the Freedom From Religion …
E. E. Cummings
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds (also, with the church’s protestant blessings daughters, unscented shapeless spirited) they believe in Christ and Longfellow, …
Hannah Arendt
“The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a worldwide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.” …
Lenny Bruce (Quote)
“[I]f anyone in this audience believes that God made his body, and your body is dirty, the fault lies with the manufacturer.” …
Ralph Vaughan Williams
“There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.” …
