“One of the most encyclopedic scientists of the time, Humboldt was a Pantheist like his friend Goethe, and a contemptuous anti-clerical like his friend F. Arago. … His letters use …
Publications
Ted Gup
“I had nearly forgotten how death plays out over time — not the biological episode that collapses it all into a nanosecond of being and nonbeing, but the slower arc …
Margaret Sanger
“No Gods — No Masters.” …
Herb Grosch
“I made them quit, essentially. When I was nine years old I decided that I was an atheist. So I told them, ‘Well you shouldn’t go to church anymore, it’s …
Alain Locke
“The best argument against there being a God is the white man who says God made him.” …
Don Addis
“Do you have any weapons, flammable materials or hazardous religious beliefs?” …
H.L. Mencken
“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by …
Avijit Roy
“If one thing is certain, it is that the virus of faith is dangerously real.” …
Neil Peart
“I looked for the good side of faith. To me it ought to be your armor, something to protect you and something to console you in dark times. But it’s …