Why fear nothingness, the eternal painless, stress- free absence of fear, grief, worry, angst, anger, fighting, aging, misery and death, rudely interrupted by an unaccountably short moment of existence via …
Publications
Phyllis Diller
“Religion is such a medieval idea. Don’t get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion and I can’t buy any of it.” …
Josh Barro
“Mentioning that I am an atheist seems to have led to a bunch of email trying to convince me of the existence of god.” …
Tony Kushner
“I wrote the play in part out of my feeling as an agnostic. Huge questions about god emerge whenever a crisis the size of the AIDS epidemic or I think …
Cecile Richards
“Still today, we are seeing politicians using the guise of religious liberties to control women’s personal reproductive healthcare decisions. They are using religion to infringe on the religious and personal …
David Miliband
“My parents and grandparents — all of them Jews — went through huge trauma. They went through the trauma of the Holocaust. I don’t know if it’s for that reason …
Jesse Ventura
“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.” …
Jacques Derrida
“If I believe in what is beyond being, then I believe as an atheist, in a certain way. However paradoxical it may sound, believing implies some atheism; and I am …
Adam Savage
“The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an …