“When I was five, I discovered I couldn’t believe in god. … She never answered my calls! My father was a professional god-botherer, my grandparents were Christians, I was surrounded …
Day: July 12, 1980
Pablo Neruda
“Like his father, Neruda was an atheist, and he felt an intuitive aversion to the mystical religions of Asia, which was later confirmed by his embrace of Communism, with its …
Henry David Thoreau
“Your church is a baby-house made of blocks.” …
Harriet Martineau
“There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties.” …
Loving v. Virginia Decided
“Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual, and cannot be infringed by the state.” …
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“My brother was unquestionably sceptical as to many alleged facts, and he disregarded formulated dogmas, and the practices founded upon them. For theological discussions of whatsoever kind he had not …
Florence Nightingale
“The Church is now more like the Scribes and Pharisees than like Christ. … What are now called the ‘essential doctrines’ of the Christian religion [Christ] does not even mention.” …
George Carlin
“When it comes to bullshit, big-time major-league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: Religion.” …
Katharine Hepburn
“I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other.” …
