“This despicable twelve-year-old atheist is waiting to be stoned. Hoping to be stoned. But not hit. I am, you see, protesting a stoning, or so I will say later that …
Day: June 10, 1980
Saul Bellow
“If you asked me if I believed in life after death, I would say I was an agnostic. There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, etc.” …
Treaty of Tripoli
“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the …
Alexandra Lúgaro
JOURNALIST: Do you attend any church?LÚGARO: No, not at the moment.JOURNALIST: Do you believe in God?LÚGARO: First of all, I think that it is not relevant to the candidacy and …
Elie Mystal
“The Supreme Court uses the Free Exercise Clause as a sword. They use it to force others who do not agree with the precepts of fundamentalist Christianity to live and …
Ariel Durant
“Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative vitality of nature but a supreme being intelligent and benevolent, the answer must be a …
Jonathan Edwards
“If there is no God, does that mean that life has no purpose? Does it mean that personal existence ends at death? They are thoughts that do my head in. …
Charles Knowlton
“But if you are a lover of truth (as all profess to be), and have been interested in perusing this work because you believed I was doing something to further …
Thomas Allsop
“He despaired of amelioration from the influence of the clergy, and, when needing a house in the country, stated in an advertisement that preference would be given to one situated …
