“Jowett, the great translator of Plato and a famous Broad Church liberal in religion, reputedly prevented Swinburne’s expulsion for atheism from Oxford with the statement that he did not want …
Publications
David Cross
“I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I don’t believe in God.” …
Robert Scheer
“I was always raised with the idea there was an inherent value to human life — and [that] certainly was not based on religion. I think it was enhanced by …
Mathilde Franziska Giesler Anneke
“Reason, which we recognize as our highest and only law-giver, commands us to be free.” …
John Burroughs
“The deeper our insight into the methods of nature … the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.” …
Marlon Brando
“When I was young, I embraced the Judeo-Christian concept of good and evil, and its corollary, that all of us were responsible for our deeds because of the choices we …
A.C. Grayling
“In the study of history I became aware of the effects of religious divisions and sectarianism on individuals and societies, and came to think that freedom from religious influence is …
Rachel Bloom
“[When] the Constitution established a separation of church and state. That’s so important, because if you look at almost any religion, especially the major three, there is an oppression of …
Émile Zola
“Given Émile Zola’s reputation as an agnostic and a radical thinker, he has often been avoided by scholars with a religious background.” …
