“I could not dash her faith with my doubts, nor could I pretend a faith I had not; so I was silent in the dread presence of death.” …
Day: February 15, 1980
Jeremy Bentham
“No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.” “[I]n no instance has a system …
Galileo Galilei
“I have been … suspected of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the Sun is the center of the universe and immovable, and that the earth is …
Matt Groening
“Technically, I’m an agnostic, but I definitely believe in hell — especially after watching the fall TV schedule.” …
Bill T. Jones
“I am a humanist, as all Christians are supposed to be. For me, the bottom line is commonality. It is the only thing I accept. I don’t even know if …
Molière
“Though living in an age of reason, he had the good sense not to proselytize but rather to animate the absurd …” …
Martin Luther King Jr.
“In the midst of blatant injustices inflicted upon the Negro, I have watched white churches stand on the sideline and merely mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities.” …
