“I think we share the same opponents because both the trans cause and the feminist cause challenge sex roles, and sex role stereotyping is central to most fundamentalist religions. We …
Day: August 10, 1980
Marcel Proust
“[Proust] was baptized (on August 5, 1871, at the church of Saint-Louis d’Antin) and later confirmed as a Catholic, but he never practised that faith and as an adult could …
Camille Pissarro
“He didn’t turn his back to Judaism, but was against the idea of God or organized religion.” …
Ernie Chambers
“As an elected official, I know the difference between theology and politics. My interest is in legislation, not salvation.” …
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 …
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 …
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.” …
Nat Hentoff
“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 …
Maurice Sendak
“I’m not unhappy about becoming old. I’m not unhappy about what must be. It makes me cry only when I see my friends go before me and life is emptied. …
