Lawrence Wright

“The very same qualities that make [religion] so powerful — because it can place a transformative lens over the ways we perceive reality and can make our lives more tolerable …

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Herman Melville

“Backward and forward, eternity is the same; already we have been the nothing we dread to be.” “Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.” …

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Paul D. Boyer

“My views have changed from a belief that my prayers were heard to clear atheism. … Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.” “None …

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Thorstein Veblen

“Indeed, it is becoming somewhat of a commonplace with observers of criminal life in European communities that the criminal and dissolute classes are, if anything, rather more devout, and more …

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Wil Wheaton

“I’m so fed up with being told that I’m a bad person because I don’t subscribe to the same exact narrow views [Christians] have.”  …

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