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Publications
Pablo Neruda
Print “Like his father, Neruda was an atheist, and he felt an intuitive aversion to the mystical religions of Asia, which was later confirmed by his embrace of Communism, with …
Sally Roesch Wagner
Print “I became a freethinker — like Matilda Joslyn Gage — at the age of 14, reading books that she had given to her son, knowing nothing about Matilda Joslyn …
Mark Fisher
Print “The persistence of the fantasy that justice is guaranteed — a religious fantasy — wouldn’t have surprised the great thinkers of modernity. Theorists such as Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche and …
John Quincy Adams
Print “This young fellow, who was possessed of most violent passions, which he with great difficulty can command, and of unbounded ambition, which he conceals perhaps, even to himself, has …
Pauline McLynn
Print “I was brought up an Irish Catholic at a time when the church and the state were so entwined in Ireland that you just didn’t get a choice. It …
Marcel Proust
Print “[Proust] was baptized (on August 5, 1871, at the church of Saint-Louis d’Antin) and later confirmed as a Catholic, but he never practised that faith and as an adult …
Camille Pissarro
Print “He didn’t turn his back to Judaism, but was against the idea of God or organized religion.” …
Ernie Chambers
Print “As an elected official, I know the difference between theology and politics. My interest is in legislation, not salvation.” …