“I’m not a person who feels very friendly toward organized religion. I think people have been brainwashed through the centuries. The churches, particularly the Catholic Church, are patriarchal organizations that …
Day: June 16, 1980
Jennifer Ouellette
“I don’t need to tell anyone here that morality is not the exclusive domain of belief in a god. Anyone can live a good, fulfilling life, even without religion.” …
Jean Hanff Korelitz
“More important than the fact that I’m not a Mormon is the fact that I’m an atheist, and I became an atheist at the age of 8.” …
Louis “Studs” Terkel
“TIPPETT: So, you know, one thing that is very striking that I didn’t expect is that this book, your book about death, it’s really a very religious book. TERKEL: Religious …
Henry Fonda
“There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.” …
Brian Eno
“Basically, Abrahamic religion belongs to the Middle Ages, and we’re moving beyond that now. We’re moving beyond wanting religion to do things it used to do. It used to have …
Anatole France
“The thoughts of the gods are not more unchangeable than those of the men who interpret them. They advance — but they always lag behind the thoughts of men. … …
Charlie Chaplin
“In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll’s Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of …
J.B. Stallo
“Government can protect and help to maintain religion, as well as everything else which constitutes the life of the soul, only in one way — by guarding the freedom of …
