“I am an atheist. (I have recently realized this.) I don’t believe the arc of the universe bends towards justice. I don’t even believe in an arc. I believe in …
Day: September 30, 1980
Truman Capote
“I belong to no churches and am not a ‘Believer’ in any formal sense. … As for me, I just go my way by myself.” …
International Blasphemy Day
Today is International Blasphemy Day, observed on this day to coincide with the anniversary of the 2005 publication of satirical drawings of Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which set off …
Paul “Jody” Gaylor
“No, I believe in the fool catcher.” …
Warren Buffett
“Mr. Buffett’s parents were observant Presbyterians and he, too, sang in the choir. Early on, though, he became an agnostic. He avoids houses of worship. His concerns are entirely secular. …
Mary Godwin Shelley
Ted Williams
“Johnny Pesky, his best friend on the Red Sox, said Williams was an atheist. Nobody has disputed that assessment, and the lack of a funeral or any other religious commemoration …
Thorstein Veblen
“Indeed, it is becoming somewhat of a commonplace with observers of criminal life in European communities that the criminal and dissolute classes are, if anything, rather more devout, and more …
Harry Weese
“My father was Episcopalian, my mother Presbyterian, and I’m an architect.” …
