“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 …
Publications
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 …
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? …
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 …
Albert Brooks
“We know meditation is healthy. Everybody says it slows your heart rate and everything, and the basis of religion seems to be that when you pray — I don’t know …
Steve Albini
“People use God to fill in the spaces in the gaps of their knowledge. … As we follow the trajectory of knowledge, the need for a God just dwindles, and …
Marci Hamilton
“The ‘Restoration’ in the title is a lie. It was not restoring anything that had been in place before. It was putting in place what the religious litigants had failed …
John Leguizamo
“I’m a recovering Catholic.” …
