Joyce Carol Oates

“I’m not a person who feels very friendly toward organized religion. I think people have been brainwashed through the centuries. The churches, particularly the Catholic Church, are patriarchal organizations that …

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Jean Meslier

“How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your credulity caused me! A thousand times I was …

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Herb Silverman

“As a mathematician, I couldn’t prove there was no god, so I took the agnostic position of not knowing. But when I learned that an atheist is simply someone without …

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Wafa Sultan

“I receive too many emails from women in the Islamic world, telling me: ‘Go ahead, we are behind you,’ but unfortunately they’re afraid for their lives.” …

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Mary Morain

“Believing that we exist only in a single world, the natural world that we share with other living creatures, and that we have no special first-class tickets that allow for …

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