Sylvia Plath

“I don’t believe in God as a kind father in the sky. I don’t believe that the meek will inherit the earth: The meek get ignored and trampled.” …

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Albert Ellis

“For a man to be a true believer and to be strong and independent is impossible; religion and self-sufficiency are contradictory terms.”  …

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Bhagat Singh

“One friend asked me to pray. When informed of my atheism, he said, ‘During your last days you will begin to believe!’ I said, ‘No, dear sir, it shall not …

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Robert Phillips

“There is so much yet to discover, and I am perplexed and frustrated by religion, which holds humanity back from its potential to evolve and to discover by clinging to …

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Norman Lear

“Without the separation of church and state, free, spirited public debate is impossible.  The mutual respect that is essential to democratic debate is lost when a president’s opinions on public …

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Maya Rudolph

“I remember my mom not even saying ‘God bless you.’ She’d say, ‘Guhbless you’ because she didn’t want us to say ‘God.’ ” …

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