“I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution, and I vowed that I would …
Day: November 5, 1980
Harriet Law
“At the height of her fame as a Secularist, Harriet Law referred to her religious past as evidence of the fact that even the most devoted of Christians could be …
Will Durant
“Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative vitality of nature but a supreme being intelligent and benevolent, the answer must be a …
Bart Ehrman
“I try to respect everybody’s views [but] sometimes those very highly religious views can be socially extremely dangerous, because if you think that the cause is supernatural, then you don’t …
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah’s ark carried dinosaurs. This case …
Sean M. Carroll
“We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part …
Bob Geldof
“I actively disliked the Church and its institutionalized morality which I felt bedeviled Ireland.” …
Denis Diderot
“The religion of Jesus Christ, announced by the ignorant, made the first Christians. The same religion, preached by savants and doctors, only makes unbelievers today.” …
Michael Hakeem
“Demolishing the claim that God exists does not require omniscience or omnipresence. It just takes critical analysis.” …