"My personal position is simple. I have no living sense of commerce with a God," said James. "Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism."

Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest... is worth enquiring into.

"I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe," De Beauvoir said.

"I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe," De Beauvoir said.

"Praying is like a rocking chair — it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere."

"Praying is like a rocking chair — it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere."

Most calendars made in the US use five lines for dates. Most months run 30-31 days. That works fine when the month begins on a Sunday through Thursday. But when a month begins on a Friday or a Saturday, as this month does, American calendars do something that I can only describe as brain-dead: they […]

"It would be safe to say that I'm agnostic." Matthews says. "I think it's very ignorant to say, 'Well, for everything, God has a plan.'"

We do not know if god-belief or the Trinity would have long survived the assaults of Thomas Aikenhead, so we can be sure it is a good thing that we have priests with no other useful function than to protect us.

“As my ancestors are free from slavery,” McQueen said, “I am free from the slavery of religion.”