“Religion can impact health in good ways, but often it has a bad impact on the health of the believer and also on the health of others. I fully support …
Day: July 2, 1980
Thomas Hardy
“Peace upon earth!” was said. We sing it, And pay a million priests to bring it. After two thousand years of mass We’ve got as far as poison-gas. …
Edward Elgar
“Elgar told me that he had no faith whatever in an afterlife: ‘I believe there is nothing but complete oblivion.’ ” …
Barbara Smoker
“People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of a supposed eternal reward, are victims of the …
Satyajit Ray
INTERVIEWER: “Do you believe in God?” RAY: “No. I don’t believe in religion either. At least not in organized religion. Nor have I felt the necessity for any personal religion.” …
Anthony B. Pinn
“For me the title is a way of capturing the decline and eventual death of a concept — God — that had been important to me for years. I wanted …
Yoram Kaniuk
“[Israel] established a state out of religion rather than the nation we almost became. Along the way we did not stop in the hallway of civilization, and religion attached itself …
Catherine the Great
“As Empress, Catherine endeavoured to enforce the enlightened humanitarian views of the great French Rationalists, with whom she was in complete sympathy. Her reforms, in regard to education, justice, sanitation, …
Jesse Plemons
“There are plenty of people like that, [with] very good intentions [who] can do some really awful things. Like when you look at religion.” …
