FAN BLOG (rating McDonnell’s “hotness points”): FAITH: Unknown but believed to be an atheist. McDONNELL: I am an atheist. FAN BLOG: Minus 50 points. McDONNELL: Oh well, reason loses again. …
Day: October 1, 1980
Freethought Today Debuts
On this date in 1983, Freethought Today, the newspaper of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, debuted in Madison, Wisconsin. …
Chapman Cohen
“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon …
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“Men who had not progressed as far as we have tried to interpret [evolution] some two thousand years ago. It is not strange that they made mistakes. They were ignorant …
Patricia Duffy Hutcheon
”Only humanism has a planetary perspective already in place. It is up to us to try to persuade the more open-minded members of the world community to join us in …
Lily Tomlin
“I’m not a religious person. I don’t have any desire. To me it’s imitative of a conventional culture. I’m all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and …
Herman Melville
“Backward and forward, eternity is the same; already we have been the nothing we dread to be.” “Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.” …
Baum, L. Frank (Quote)
“The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.” (Baum is best-known for his book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” published in 1900.) …
Edward Clodd
“[T]he mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother …
