“I think humanism is within us and it’s inborn, nobody under the sun is born with religion. I think religion is something that is imposed on humanity by people who …
Publications
C. Wright Mills
“[A]re not all the television Christians in reality armchair atheists? In value and in reality they live without the God they profess; despite ten million Bibles sold each year, they …
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the wilderness a holy man To his surprise met a servant of Pan, A goat-footed faun, who spoke with grace; “Lord, pray for me and for my race, That …
Granville Stuart
“Don’t you know that mankind is an Ass pure & simple & for all the use they make of their brains in matters of religion they [may] as well have …
Shirley Manson
ROLLING STONE: Do you believe in God?MANSON: No, not at all. …
Barbara Ehrenreich
“In my parents’ general view, new things were better than old, and the very fact that some ritual had been performed in the past was a good reason for abandoning …
Zona Gale
‘Who made bed-time?’ I inquired irritably. ‘S-h-h!’ said Delia. ‘God did.’ ‘I don’t believe it,’ I announced flatly. ‘Well,’ said Delia, ‘anyway, he makes us sleep.’ This I also challenged. …
Robert Walpole
“A man whose life reflected a genial paganism, who regarded all creeds with the impartiality of indifference, and who looked upon religion as a local accident and as the result …
Anniversary of Women’s Equality Day
Happy Women’s Equality Day! Today is the anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment extending the right to vote to women in the United States. Among the first to …