“Now at least, in our immediate day, we hear a Pope saying slave trading is wrong, and see him sending an expedition to Africa to stop it. The texts remain; …
Day: November 10, 1980
Julia Sweeney
“It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at the world not as a …
Harold Pinter
“You know, I had my bar mitzvah when I was thirteen and I never entered a synagogue again. I’ve been to one or two marriages, I think, but I’ve never …
Henry Cavendish
“As to Cavendish’s religion, he was nothing at all. The only subjects in which he appeared to take any interest were science.” …
Fridtjof Nansen
“[T]he religion of one age is, as a rule, the literary entertainment of the next.” …
Thelonious Monk
INTERVIEWER: “Do you believe in God?” MONK: “I don’t know nothing. Do you?” …
Stephen J. Gould
“We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an …
Walter Plywaski
“I’m an atheist. Once in Auschwitz, we were on lockdown in the barracks. And we hear high-pitched screams coming from somewhere outside. The Kapo comes in and tells us that …
Antonio Banderas
“I have to recognize that I am agnostic. I don’t believe in any kind of fundamentalism. I prefer to take life in a different way, with a sense of humor. …
