“The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody’s personal concern!” …
Publications
Sting
“[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.” …
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.” …
Gene Weingarten
“Atheists always get this question: How can you be an ethical, moral person? Which is annoying and insulting. It demonstrates a fundamental disconnect. Do you really need fear of hell …
Graham Greene
“I prefer to be an agnostic and think that the body itself produces its own miracle.” …
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 to coincide with the anniversary of the 2005 publication of satirical drawings of Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, setting off a furor by …
