“[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 …
Publications
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 …
Kevin Bacon
“I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America.” …
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 …
Ernst Bloch
“[Our church] bristles at see-through blouses, but not at slums in which half-naked children starve, and not, above all, at the conditions that keep three-quarters of mankind in misery. It …
Eleanor Clift
“Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.” …
