Print On this date in 1776, Thomas Jefferson’s “Declaration of Independence” was adopted, after a vote approving it on July 2. Its secular purpose was to “dissolve the political bands,” …
Publications
Christopher Cameron
Print “Despite views of Blacks as naturally religious, freethought has been a vital and significant component of Black culture and politics since the 19th century.” …
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Print “Dear Friends, Man has created God; not God man. Yours ever, Garibaldi.” …
Kay Nolte Smith
Print “The tragedy is that every brain cell devoted to belief in the supernatural is a brain cell one cannot use to make life richer or easier or happier.” …
Leoš Janáček
Print “Today they are lifting the bells into the tower. It would be nice if they weren’t calling people to bamboozling.” …
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Print Preach about the other man, Preacher! The man we all can see! The man of oaths, the man of strife, The man who drinks and beats his wife, Who …
Dave Barry
Print THE FEDERALIST: You mention that you’re not a believer in God. Are you a Christopher Hitchens-God-is-the-cause-of-all-the-troubles-in-the-world atheist or an agnostic? Do you see any value in religion? BARRY: I …
Tom Stoppard
Print “I’ve always thought that the idea of God is absolutely preposterous, but slightly more plausible than the alternative proposition that, given enough time, some green slime could write Shakespeare’s …
Barbara G. Walker
Print “[T]he very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history’s most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five centuries of almost unimaginable terrorism …
