“My Grandmother Skinner made sure that I understood the concept of hell by showing me the glowing bed of coals in the parlor stove. In a traveling magician’s show I …
Day: March 20, 1980
Henrik Ibsen
“The state has its root in Time: it will have its culmination in Time. Greater things than it will fall; all religion will fall. Neither the conceptions of morality nor …
Pamela Sargent
“Gore Vidal once wrote that, whatever most writers say, the books that influence them most are those read in childhood — before the age of twelve, say — presumably because …
William Stewart Ross
“Christianity claims to have originated lunatic asylums. If I were to claim that it was I who made the moons of Jupiter and placed the belt round Saturn, I should …
The Woman Rebel Founded
On this date in 1914, Margaret Sanger‘s publication, The Woman Rebel, with its motto of “No Gods – No Masters,” debuted. …
Carl Reiner
MOMENT: Have you always been an atheist?REINER: I became an atheist after Hitler came. I said, what is this? If there was a God, would he not be hearing 18 …
John de Lancie
“My biggest concern is that with certain religious training you seem to lose any sort of critical thinking in the process. You seem to lose your ability to ask questions.” …
Julian Scheer
SCHEER: “What about the people on earth who do not worship our God, Buddhists, Muslims and …”FLANIGAN: “Damn it, Julian, the president is big on God!” …
James A. Haught
“Although billions of people pray to invisible gods, they’re just imaginary, as far as a sincere inquirer can tell. So, to me, the only honest viewpoint is the humanist one, …
