“Now I have to say I’m a complete atheist. I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views. And consciousness is just …
Publications
Dana Nessel
“As I am a member of more than one minority community, it’s led me to be a fervent supporter of separation of church and state.” …
Bertrand Russell (Quote)
“My own view on religion is that of Lucretius [Roman philosopher, c. 99-55 BCE]. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery …
Bonnie Garmus
“It started to occur to me that doubt was a good thing — even a great thing — maybe the most powerful tool we humans have in our toolbox. Doubt …
Clarence Darrow
“I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.” …
Isak Dinesen
“There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it …
Charlie Chaplin
“In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll’s Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of …
Anatole France
“The thoughts of the gods are not more unchangeable than those of the men who interpret them. They advance — but they always lag behind the thoughts of men. … …
Emma Thompson
“I’m an atheist; I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It’s not enough to say that I don’t believe …