“Every denial of education, every refusal of advantages to women, may be traced to this dogma [of original sin], which first began to spread its baleful influence with the rise …
Publications
Charles Blow
“People often ask my views on religion. Here goes: Human beings needed something to explain the things they couldn’t understand or contemplate, so they created religion. It’s a way of …
Lyle Stuart
“Do I believe in any god or gods or supernatural destiny? No. I’m an atheist from way back. If you believe there is some god or gods watching over you, more …
Robert Green Ingersoll
“All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.” “I do not borrow ideas. I have a factory of my own.” “I do not believe …
Steve Wozniak
“I am also atheist or agnostic (I don’t even know the difference). I’ve never been to church and prefer to think for myself.” …
Frances “Poppy” Northcutt
“I think we share the same opponents because both the trans cause and the feminist cause challenge sex roles, and sex role stereotyping is central to most fundamentalist religions. We …
Walter Plywaski
“I’m an atheist. Once in Auschwitz, we were on lockdown in the barracks. And we hear high-pitched screams coming from somewhere outside. The Kapo comes in and tells us that …
Antonio Banderas
“I have to recognize that I am agnostic. I don’t believe in any kind of fundamentalism. I prefer to take life in a different way, with a sense of humor. …
Sigmund Freud (Quote)
“A religion, even if it calls itself the religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.” …