“Of course, it was impossible to teach biology without teaching evolution. But to the fundamentalists, evolution symbolized all that was repugnant. It was a threat to religious belief, they thought. …
Day: August 3, 1980
John Landis
“I’m an atheist. I do not believe in the devil; in fact, I’m suspect of people who do.” …
Michael Terence Wogan
“I’m afraid I don’t believe in God. My mother was devout and so is my wife. But I have the intellectual arrogance that makes it very hard to believe in …
Rupert Brooke
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant, if it were! One may not doubt …
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Preach about the other man, Preacher! The man we all can see! The man of oaths, the man of strife, The man who drinks and beats his wife, Who helps …
Leoš Janáček
“Today they are lifting the bells into the tower. It would be nice if they weren’t calling people to bamboozling.” …
Tom Stoppard
“I’ve always thought that the idea of God is absolutely preposterous, but slightly more plausible than the alternative proposition that, given enough time, some green slime could write Shakespeare’s sonnets.” …
Dave Barry
THE FEDERALIST: You mention that you’re not a believer in God. Are you a Christopher Hitchens-God-is-the-cause-of-all-the-troubles-in-the-world atheist or an agnostic? Do you see any value in religion? BARRY: I don’t …
Kerry King
“I don’t really have a life philosophy; my thing is just rebelling against pretty much organized religion. That is my main thing, because personally I think it’s a crutch for …
