“I can’t embrace a male god who has persecuted female sexuality throughout the ages, and that persecution still goes on today all over the world.” …
Publications
Frank Loesser
“What a blessing to know there’s a devil, and that I’m but a pawn in his game / that my impulse to sin doesn’t come from within, and so I’m …
Stokely Carmichael
“They were all reading the funnies while I was trying to dig Darwin and Marx.” …
Richard Rodgers
“Those around him knew … Rodgers was an atheist. At the age of twelve, Mary Rodgers Guettel [his daughter] asked her father whether he believed in God and he answered …
Paul Broca
“[Religion is] nothing more than a type of submission to authority.” …
Lalla Ward
“We are both strongly non-religious, and we have similar views on what’s important in life.” …
Ashley Montagu
“The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of …
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Whoever dares to say: ‘Outside the Church is no salvation,’ ought to be driven from the State. But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are …
Mel Brooks
“If you’re not indoctrinated into some kind of religion when you’re very young, then it can play very little. I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish …
