“I leaf through [the bible] quite often — if only to shake my head in disgust. I quote Leviticus to people who think that every word in the Bible is …
Publications
Catherine the Great
“As Empress, Catherine endeavoured to enforce the enlightened humanitarian views of the great French Rationalists, with whom she was in complete sympathy. Her reforms, in regard to education, justice, sanitation, …
Anthony B. Pinn
“For me the title is a way of capturing the decline and eventual death of a concept — God — that had been important to me for years. I wanted …
Yoram Kaniuk
“[Israel] established a state out of religion rather than the nation we almost became. Along the way we did not stop in the hallway of civilization, and religion attached itself …
Joseph Heller
“Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth-decay in His divine system of creation?” …
Bob Mankoff
“Just to clear up any ambiguity, I’m not a believer, or even agnostic, I’m an atheist (denomination: Jewish). That means the God I don’t believe in is different from the …
Cloris Leachman
“I don’t believe at all in God and I’m very relieved that I don’t.” …
Annie Dillard (Quote)
“If God’s escape clause is that he gives only spiritual things, then we might hope that the poor and suffering are rich in spiritual gifts, as some certainly are, but …
Claude Shannon
“Shannon described himself as an atheist and was outwardly apolitical.” …
