And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God, ... I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least ...

"People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy."

One of the leaders of the Paris Commune, Michel saw that the Commune severed all state connection to the Catholic Church, nationalized all church property, and secularized the schools.

Supernatural entities simply do not exist... [O]ur cosmos does not possess a supernatural and eternal God... As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter.

Look, I'm an atheist. People say to me, do you believe in God? No, I don't believe in God... I have to have some proof of something.

Alse Young (1647): First American Execution for Witchcraft It was on this date, May 26, 1647, that the first witch was hanged in America for the crime of witchcraft. Alse Young was arrested, tried for this capital offense in Windsor, Connecticut, and hanged at Meeting House Square in Hartford, on what is now the site […]

The end of his life was the beginning the most morally loose period in the history of Europe – now mythologized as the "Age of Chivalry."

Emerson rejected the idea of personal immortality and repudiated even the amorphous Unitarian God, believing instead in a vaguely Pantheistic Over-Soul.

"God, if She exists, isn't really a part of my life."

This "great Catholic poet" – you might as well call him the only great Catholic poet – rejected or ignored much of the theology of his church.