“It’s hard to say, ‘I don’t believe in God.’ I would love to know if God exists. But it’s a very difficult thing for me to believe. … I say, …
Day: June 3, 1980
James Hutton
“The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the …
Edward Livingston Youmans
“He also expressed skepticism about miracles, as infractions of the order of nature requiring much more evidence to make them credible than has ever been produced.” …
Steven Weinberg
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to …
Pete Seeger
“I leaf through [the bible] quite often — if only to shake my head in disgust. I quote Leviticus to people who think that every word in the Bible is …
Mary L. Trump
“It just seemed absurd that there could be any kind of higher power. None of it made sense to me any more. So, since the age of 16, I have …
A.C. Grayling
“In the study of history I became aware of the effects of religious divisions and sectarianism on individuals and societies, and came to think that freedom from religious influence is …
Rachel Bloom
“[When] the Constitution established a separation of church and state. That’s so important, because if you look at almost any religion, especially the major three, there is an oppression of …
Marlon Brando
“When I was young, I embraced the Judeo-Christian concept of good and evil, and its corollary, that all of us were responsible for our deeds because of the choices we …
