In 1986, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, with Illinois member Steve Van Zandt, filed a federal lawsuit to stop the building of a chapel at the Illinois statehouse. The chapel …
Day: January 29, 1988
Danny McBride
“My family’s religious. As I got older, the church didn’t appeal to me and I went my own way.” …
Paula Poundstone
“I’m an atheist. The good news about atheists is that we have no mandate to convert anyone. So you’ll never find me on your doorstep on a Saturday morning with …
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Quote)
“Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle Into …
Edward Truelove
“He believed, with Madame de Stael, the search for truth is the noblest pursuit of man and the publication of it a duty.” …
Alfred Jules Ayer
“I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the …
Lee Child
“I’ve no sympathy for any religion. I’m an atheist; I think they’re all nuts.” …
Colin Dexter
“[Morse] evolved as I wrote. Like me he is diabetic, an atheist and a lover of music and art.” …
Barbara Mertz
“There are always, thank heaven, skeptics who challenge orthodox ideas. They are the great thinkers of all times.” …
