“My father was a Catholic deacon, my mother was a lay minister and I thought about becoming a priest. I was in church every Sunday for the first 15 years …
Publications
Matthew Sweet
I’ve spent twenty years learning to live In a world that takes back all that it gives But I do not want a war ‘Cause I’m not in for killing …
John McWhorter
“I am, indeed, an atheist. Not an agnostic, but an atheist. And I openly admit that religious commitment perplexes and sometimes even irritates me. It’s partly a matter of personal …
Alfred Naquet
Emily Palmer Cape
“Cape was not your average socialite; she was an agnostic, a freethinker, and a self-described ‘suffragist.’ ” …
Bart Ehrman
“I try to respect everybody’s views [but] sometimes those very highly religious views can be socially extremely dangerous, because if you think that the cause is supernatural, then you don’t …
Denis Diderot
“The religion of Jesus Christ, announced by the ignorant, made the first Christians. The same religion, preached by savants and doctors, only makes unbelievers today.” …
Bob Geldof
“I actively disliked the Church and its institutionalized morality which I felt bedeviled Ireland.” …
Sean M. Carroll
“We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part …
