CBS commentator Andy Rooney has frequently made irreverent comments in his "60 Minutes" commentaries, columns and books. In November 2000, he reminded readers: "The obituaries in the newspapers and on …
Day: October 18, 2001
State/Church Watchdog Group Condemns Irresponsible Congressional Resolution
“Joe McCarthy Lives!” The U.S. House of Representatives, in thoughtlessly passing a trouble-making resolution promoting the use of the slogan “God Bless America” in public schools, is contributing to an …
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FFRF Protests Passion Play Proposal
A scheme proposed by Iowa public officials to divert $100,000 in public tourist money to a Christian theme park and “passion play” is being protested by the Freedom From Religion …
Susan Sackett
“I cannot find any good evidence for the existence of any gods, so I am ‘without a god’ — an atheist.” …
Pedro Pablo Abarca Aranda
Margaret Atwood
“This is not an attack on Christianity, but the fact is Christians have long persecuted other sects and each other, as they are in Northern Ireland today. People were saying …
Pierre Bayle
“It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.” …
Chalmers Roberts
“I do want to add a final word about the hereafter. I do not believe in it. I think that the religions which promise various after-life scenarios basically invented them …
Ben Winter
“Belief is an anomaly of the mind.” …
