“I was not that rebellious as a kid, but I was really done with church in a pretty big way. And I think they could probably feel that this wasn’t …
Day: April 23, 1980
William Shakespeare
“In religion, what damned error, but some sober brow will bless it and approve it with a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?” …
J.M.W. Turner
“As a child he was sent to a Methodist school in Margate, but as a young man there are accounts of him eschewing church in favor of continuing to sketch.” …
Peter Watson
“Religion has kept civilization back for hundreds of years, and the biggest mistake in the history of civilization, is ethical monotheism, the concept of the one God. Let’s get rid …
Sergei Prokofiev
“At home we didn’t talk about religion. So, gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen, my father died; my response to …
Richard Proctor
“[H]e became a student at King’s College, where he came out either at or close to the head of the honours list in Theology, a subject for which he was …
William Smith
“In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the Earth — and a central plank of …
Erich Fromm
“If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and …
S.E. Cupp
“I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?” …
