“The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ. … To rely on the evidence of …
Publications
Rosalind Franklin
“[As to] the question of a creator. A creator of what? … I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has …
Vern Bullough
“[Vern Bullough] will be sorely missed as one of the leading secular humanists in North America and the world.” …
Rose Byrne
“I think the fact that there are so many different religions in the world immediately makes me suspicious. How can you know which one is right?” …
Mara Wilson
“Eventually, I saw Julia Sweeney‘s monologue ‘Letting Go of God.’ That changed everything. I walked out of the theater and said, ‘You know what, I don’t believe there is a …
Alfred “Dilly” Knox
At King’s College, Knox became the only confirmed atheist in his family. “According to his niece [biographer Penelope Fitzgerald], Dilly became convinced that Christianity was a two-thousand-year-old swindle eliciting false …
Daniel Radcliffe
“I’m not religious, I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. We need sex education in schools. Schools have to talk to kids from a …
Hendrik Hertzberg
“The atmosphere of piety in American public life has become stifling. Where is it written that if you don’t like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? …
Samuel Porter Putnam
“The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing, though it might be free from dogma. I believe, however, that the …
