“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.” …
Publications
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 …
Helen Taylor
“Religion should be taught by ministers of religion or by volunteer teachers, such as teachers of Sunday schools, and … the school master ought not to undertake the work of …
Maya Rudolph
“I remember my mom not even saying ‘God bless you.’ She’d say, ‘Guhbless you’ because she didn’t want us to say ‘God.’ ” …
George Bernard Shaw
“It is not disbelief that is dangerous to society, it is belief.” …
Daniel Everett
“I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.” …
