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Lighting a candle in toxic air.
2011-01-09
January 9: Dave Matthews (1967)

"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.'"

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2011-01-08
January 8: Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen

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

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2010-12-25
December 25: Quentin Crisp

Crisp once quipped, "a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'"

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2010-12-20
December 20: Uri Geller

Geller has not yet been able to stop a bullet, or lift a London fog, or even win the lottery. His supposed psychic powers, even if genuine, are trivial at best.

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2010-12-10
December 10: The First Playboy, Hugh M. Hefner

If a man has a right to find God in his own way, he has a right to go to the devil in his own way also.

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2010-12-09
December 9: John Malkovich

"I also particularly like [Freud] because he was an atheist, and I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. ... I don't believe something I can have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums."

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2010-12-05
December 5: Monty Python's Flying Circus

Every sperm is sacred Every sperm is great If a sperm is wasted God gets quite irate.

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2010-12-01
December 1: Woody Allen

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

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2010-11-28
November 28: Randy Newman

And the Lord said: I burn down your cities — how blind you must be I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we You all must be crazy to put your faith in me That's why I love mankind... —"God's Song"

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2010-11-21
November 21: Björk

I've got my own religion... If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself.

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