“Like many nineteenth-century artists, Verdi was an agnostic whose elevated sense of morality and duty bypassed divine sanction. Strepponi, replying in 1871 to a friend bent on Verdi’s conversion, at …
Publications
Chris O’Dowd
“For most of my life, I’ve been, ‘Hey, I’m not into it, but I respect your right to believe whatever you want’. But as time goes on, weirdly, I’m growing …
Roger Williams (Banished)
“God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.” …
Hector Avalos
“One thing led to another, and I realized that I did not believe in Christianity or that the Bible was the word of God, or that the Bible had any …
James Fergus
“Religion is declining, with no better proof than I am here today. Two hundred years ago, I would have been burned at the stake. What was considered heresay [sic] by …
Tim Minchin
“And yes I have all of the usual objections To the miseducation of children who, in tax-exempt institutions, Are taught to externalize blame And to feel ashamed and to judge …
Joy Behar
“I’m pathetically pragmatic. … I don’t believe that there’s a higher power that created human beings.” …
Harry Kroto
“I am a devout atheist — nothing else makes any sense to me and I must admit to being bewildered by those, who in the face of what appears so …
Joe Hill
The Preacher And The Slave Long-haired preachers come out every night Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right; But when asked about something to eat, They will answer …
