“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 Marx …
Publications
John Quincy Adams
“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 been …
Pauline McLynn
“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 …
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 …
