“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 was …
Publications
Marcel Proust
“[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 could …
Camille Pissarro
“He didn’t turn his back to Judaism, but was against the idea of God or organized religion.” …
Ernie Chambers
“As an elected official, I know the difference between theology and politics. My interest is in legislation, not salvation.” …
Sherry Matulis
Religion’s Child Aware of light and yet condemned to grope Through dark regression’s cave, told she must find Life’s purpose in that blackness, without hope, Denied the luminescence of her …
Oliver Sacks
“As I write, in New York in mid-December, the city is full of Christmas trees and menorahs. I would be inclined to say, as an old Jewish atheist, that these …
Billy Crudup
“We’re living in a world with a lot of religious zealotry right now. So it does breed distrust in people who have a faith, a belief system that allows them …
Harriet Johnson
“As an atheist, I think all preferences are moot once you kill someone. The injury is entirely to the surviving community.” …
Faye Wattleton
“If I was to be a nurse, [people with beliefs different from mine] needed my care and not my judgment. They needed my compassion and understanding and not my moral …
