“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.” …
Publications
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 …
Jean-Baptiste LaMarck
“All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.” …
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 …
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.” …
Anne Hutchinson (Banished)
On this date in 1637, Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Puritan theocracy of Boston by the Massachusetts General Court for sedition and heresy. Hutchinson (1591-1643) was a religious reformer …
Meg Bowman
“Why burn? The answer is simple. Read the Bible — the Koran — the theologians and philosophers of the world. Look in your hymnals and then ask, ‘What better way …
14th Amendment Adopted
On this date in 1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was formally adopted after certification by Secretary of State William Seward. It reads, in part: “No State shall make or …
Norman Lear
“Without the separation of church and state, free, spirited public debate is impossible. The mutual respect that is essential to democratic debate is lost when a president’s opinions on public …
