“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 …
Publications
Pat Maginnis
“Religious politics have very definitely led to the deaths of millions of women, not just thousands but millions, over the years.” …
Cole Porter
“Although later in life Cole briefly considered embracing religion, he was never a believer, and his several comments about his mother’s attachments to Peru churches were dismissive.” …
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. …
Natalie Portman
“I’m much more like the product of a doctor than I am a Jew. I don’t believe in [an afterlife]. I believe this is it, and I believe it’s the …
Johnny Depp
LARRY KING: “Do you have faith?”DEPP: “Yes. I have faith in my kids. And I have — I have faith, you know, that as long as you keep moving forward, …
Francis Crick
“I realized early on that it is detailed scientific knowledge which makes certain religious beliefs untenable. A knowledge of the true age of the earth and of the fossil record …
Robert Schumann
“Naturally they stopped at the Beethoven statue that Schumann had been visiting nearly every day; the monument was his church and his altar.” …
Tim Berners-Lee
“I rejected [Christianity] just after being ‘confirmed’ and told how essential it was to believe in all kinds of unbelievable things.” …
