“All religious belief is a function of non-rational faith, and faith by its very definition tends to be impervious to intellectual argument or academic criticism.” …
Publications
Henry “Hank” Zumach
“I gradually came to realize that many of the things I was taught during five years attending Catholic schools did not make any logical sense, and were, in fact, contrary …
George E. Macdonald
“The [Catholic] Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.” …
Leo Rosten
“The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.” …
Mark Strand
“I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical. Nobody’s come back to me to tell me they’re having a great time in heaven and that …
Thomas Allsop
“He despaired of amelioration from the influence of the clergy, and, when needing a house in the country, stated in an advertisement that preference would be given to one situated …
Tom Lehrer
First you get down on your knees, Fiddle with your rosaries, Bow your head with great respect, And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect! Do whatever steps you want, if You have cleared …
Sam Harris
“It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.” …
Hugh Hefner
“It’s perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It’s something we have invented to explain the inexplicable.” …
