And every year when the fields are highWith oat grass, and red top, and timothy,I know that a creed is the shell of a lie. …
Day: February 9, 1980
James Parton
“In the days when to be an Agnostic was to be almost an outcast, [Parton] had the heart to say of the Mysteries that he did not know.” …
Aletta Jacobs
“As a freethinker, she belonged to no organized religious community and disliked religion of any kind.” …
Jacques Monod
“As nontheists, we begin with humans not God, nature not deity.” …
Giulio Cesare Vanini (Died)
Dave Matthews
“We owe a faith to the world and to ourselves. We owe a grace and gratitude to things that have brought us here. But I think it’s very ignorant to …
Simone de Beauvoir
“Man enjoys the great advantage of having a God endorse the codes he writes; and since man exercises a sovereign authority over woman, it is especially fortunate that this authority …
Linda Greenhouse
“[I]t’s past time for the rest of us to step back and consider the impact of religion’s current grip on public policy — not only on the right to abortion, …
