“I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at least that peace …
Day: November 12, 1980
Freethought Day
Ralph Vaughan Williams
“There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.” …
H.L. Mencken
“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by …
Catherine Fahringer
“We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn’t been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.” …
Avijit Roy
“If one thing is certain, it is that the virus of faith is dangerously real.” …
Neil Peart
“I looked for the good side of faith. To me it ought to be your armor, something to protect you and something to console you in dark times. But it’s …
George Soros
STEVE KROFT: Are you religious?GEORGE SOROS: No.KROFT: Do you believe in God?SOROS: No. …
Lillie Devereux Blake
“Every denial of education, every refusal of advantages to women, may be traced to this dogma [of original sin], which first began to spread its baleful influence with the rise …