Wrote Burns in “Epistle to Rev. John McMath,” “But twenty times I rather would be // An atheist clean, // Than under gospel colours hid be // Just for a screen.”
Daily Archive: January 25, 2011
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Jan 25
January 25: W. Somerset Maugham
In “Of Human Bondage,” the author’s surrogate, Philip Carey, “looked upon Christianity as a degrading bondage that must be cast away at any cost…” In “Summing Up,” Maugham said, “I remain an agnostic.”
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Jan 25
January 25: Virginia Woolf
To a correspondent in 1939, Woolf found herself “reflecting upon my lack of what you possess — faith;” and asking, “how much more pervious to preaching your faith makes you than my lack?”
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Jan 25
A Rant on The Catholic Encyclopedia entry on “Atheism”
This post is based on The Catholic Encyclopedia entry on “Atheism”. To better understand my rant, I suggest that you head over to this web page and read up in their entry. If you are a Freethinker, I guarantee it will not take you long into the article before you start shaking your head in …
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