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Lighting a candle in toxic air.
2011-03-06
March 6: Gabriel García Márquez

Marquez attacks religion by poking fun at the Christian practice of paying collections to the church and acting pious in exchange for answered prayers. “I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him,” he said.

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2011-03-06
March 6: Michelangelo

The Catholic Encyclopedia, while praising his morality, industry and artistic talent, can find no words to describe his religious faith.

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2011-03-05
March 5: Penn Jillette

“Atheism only means that I don't believe in God,” says Penn. “I don't believe a God is impossible, I just don't think there is evidence of one.”

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2011-03-04
Paying Taxes When Hell Freezes Over

So when are Christian Nationalist Republicans going to get the churches to stop being freeloaders pay their fair share? Probably when hell freezes over!

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2011-03-04
March 4: Pope Eugene IV (1431): Spirituality and Brutality

Eugene retook Rome amid rivers of blood, justified and profited from the slave trade against non-Christians, and was also one of the most superstitious men of his time.

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2011-03-03
March 3: Ira Glass

About Christianity, Glass wrote, "Well, if that's the system: fine. I accept my damnation. I don't think it's a fair system. But fine. I just don't believe."

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2011-03-02
March 2: Pope Leo XIII

Leo especially objected to things we take for granted today: secular public education, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association, separation of church and state.

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2011-03-02
March 2: Mikhail S. Gorbachev

Gorbachev remains an Atheist, but in leading the establishment of religious freedom laws in the former Soviet Union he demonstrated respect for all religions.

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2011-03-01
March 1: William Dean Howells

Howells cast off his Swedenborgian creed in his youth and became a social liberal and a sentimental Theist. We can see this in his poem "Lost Beliefs."

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2011-03-01
March 1: William M. Gaines

When emphasizing his sincerity, Gaines would declare, "On my honor as an atheist..."

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