“We’re living in a world with a lot of religious zealotry right now. So it does breed distrust in people who have a faith, a belief system that allows them …
Day: July 8, 1980
Harriet Johnson
“As an atheist, I think all preferences are moot once you kill someone. The injury is entirely to the surviving community.” …
Kevin Bacon
“I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America.” …
Ernst Bloch
“[Our church] bristles at see-through blouses, but not at slums in which half-naked children starve, and not, above all, at the conditions that keep three-quarters of mankind in misery. It …
Faye Wattleton
“If I was to be a nurse, [people with beliefs different from mine] needed my care and not my judgment. They needed my compassion and understanding and not my moral …
Sara Paretsky
“I’m at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.” …
Tim Berners-Lee
“I rejected [Christianity] just after being ‘confirmed’ and told how essential it was to believe in all kinds of unbelievable things.” …
Francis Crick
“I realized early on that it is detailed scientific knowledge which makes certain religious beliefs untenable. A knowledge of the true age of the earth and of the fossil record …
Frank Lloyd Wright
“I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.” …