“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
Satyajit Ray
INTERVIEWER: “Do you believe in God?” RAY: “No. I don’t believe in religion either. At least not in organized religion. Nor have I felt the necessity for any personal religion.” …
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 …
Jonathan Larsen
“I like the paganism and the solstice and lights in the dead of winter in the longest nights. I love that Christmas has nothing to do with The Bible and …
Cloris Leachman
“I don’t believe at all in God and I’m very relieved that I don’t.” …
