“So I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths.” …
Publications
Maurice Sendak
“I’m not unhappy about becoming old. I’m not unhappy about what must be. It makes me cry only when I see my friends go before me and life is emptied. …
Alexandra Lúgaro
JOURNALIST: Do you attend any church?LÚGARO: No, not at the moment.JOURNALIST: Do you believe in God?LÚGARO: First of all, I think that it is not relevant to the candidacy and …
Saul Bellow
“If you asked me if I believed in life after death, I would say I was an agnostic. There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, etc.” …
Treaty of Tripoli
“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the …
Nat Hentoff
“This despicable twelve-year-old atheist is waiting to be stoned. Hoping to be stoned. But not hit. I am, you see, protesting a stoning, or so I will say later that …
Eddie Marsan
“I’m a Humanist because I believe that the cultural & religious identities that we construct for ourselves & their belief systems, although they may give us comfort, are illusionary. Morality …
Pat Maginnis
“Religious politics have very definitely led to the deaths of millions of women, not just thousands but millions, over the years.” …
Michael J. Fox
TERRY GROSS: You know, you say that the last thing to go is the future, but some people believe that there is a future after death, that there’s an afterlife. …
