“When I was 8 years old, I tried prayer. And it didn’t work!” …
Day: December 17, 1980
Stephen Symonds Foster
“During the 1844 New England Antislavery Convention, Foster held up a collar and manacles and declared, ‘Behold here a specimen of the religion of this land, the handiwork of the …
Voltairine de Cleyre
“The question of souls is old — we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, God is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.” …
John Wilkes
Georg Buchner
Mercier: But what about morality? Payne: First you adduce morality as a proof of God, and then cite God in support of morality. You reason in a beautiful circle, like …
William Anders
“It really undercut my religious beliefs. The idea that things rotate around the pope and up there is a big supercomputer wondering whether Billy was a good boy yesterday? It …
Arthur Miller
“The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal in my opinion.” …
Michael McKean
“Belief in the Rapture should disqualify anyone from holding public office.” …
Periyar
“He who created God is a fool, he who propagates God is a scoundrel, and he who worships God is a barbarian.” …
