“[I]f ever I’m asked if I’m religious I always reply, ‘Yes, I’m a devout musician.’ Music puts me in touch with something beyond the intellect, something otherworldly, something sacred.” …
Publications
Christian de Duve
“It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.” …
Wallace Stevens
“The death of one god is the death of all.” …
Annie Besant
“I rejoice that I played my part in that educating of England which has made impossible for evermore the crude superstitions of the past, and the repetition of the cruelties …
Charlie McDonnell
FAN BLOG (rating McDonnell’s “hotness points”): FAITH: Unknown but believed to be an atheist. McDONNELL: I am an atheist. FAN BLOG: Minus 50 points. McDONNELL: Oh well, reason loses again. …
International Blasphemy Day
Today is International Blasphemy Day, observed on this day to coincide with the anniversary of the 2005 publication of satirical drawings of Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which set off …
Ta-Nehisi Coates
“I am an atheist. (I have recently realized this.) I don’t believe the arc of the universe bends towards justice. I don’t even believe in an arc. I believe in …
Truman Capote
“I belong to no churches and am not a ‘Believer’ in any formal sense. … As for me, I just go my way by myself.” …
Phil Plait
“How do you convince someone they’re not thinking clearly, when they’re not thinking clearly? What we’re actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, …
