“The emancipation of the mind from religious superstition is as essential to the progress of civilization as is emancipation from physical slavery.” …
Day: November 7, 1980
Joni Mitchell
“I’m interested in the prophets of all religions, but the religions themselves don’t make any sense to me.” …
Sasha Sagan
“My parents raised me to be skeptical but not cynical.” “My hope is to teach my daughter to face our reality as we understand it through science and find the …
Harry Kroto
“I am a devout atheist — nothing else makes any sense to me and I must admit to being bewildered by those, who in the face of what appears so …
Joe Hill
The Preacher And The Slave Long-haired preachers come out every night Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right; But when asked about something to eat, They will answer …
Tim Minchin
“And yes I have all of the usual objections To the miseducation of children who, in tax-exempt institutions, Are taught to externalize blame And to feel ashamed and to judge …
Joy Behar
“I’m pathetically pragmatic. … I don’t believe that there’s a higher power that created human beings.” …
Dan Savage
“My father was a Catholic deacon, my mother was a lay minister and I thought about becoming a priest. I was in church every Sunday for the first 15 years …
Roy Zimmerman
Freedom to oppressIn the name of righteousnessReligious freedom to scratch where it itchesReligious freedom to burn our own witches. …