John Lennon

Imagine Imagine there’s no heaven, It’s easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky. Imagine all the people Living for today. Imagine there’s no country, It …

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Leo Tolstoy

“Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that …

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Oliver Sacks

“As I write, in New York in mid-December, the city is full of Christmas trees and menorahs. I would be inclined to say, as an old Jewish atheist, that these …

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Sherry Matulis

Religion’s Child Aware of light and yet condemned to grope Through dark regression’s cave, told she must find Life’s purpose in that blackness, without hope, Denied the luminescence of her …

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Eddie Marsan

“I’m a Humanist because I believe that the cultural & religious identities that we construct for ourselves & their belief systems, although they may give us comfort, are illusionary. Morality …

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Michael J. Fox

TERRY GROSS: You know, you say that the last thing to go is the future, but some people believe that there is a future after death, that there’s an afterlife. …

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