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2011-01-15
January 15: Molière

Don Juan was described by a contemporary as "a school of Atheism." Tartuffe so stirred up the clergy that some clerics wanted the playwright burned as a heretic! Instead, he was excommunicated.

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2011-01-09
January 9: Simone de Beauvoir

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

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2011-01-09
January 9: Simone de Beauvoir (1908)

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

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2011-01-09
January 9: Gypsy Rose Lee

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

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2011-01-09
January 9: Gypsy Rose Lee (1911)

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

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2011-01-05
January 5: Umberto Eco

"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth," says Eco, "for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."

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2011-01-04
January 4: Freethinkers in the Fabian Society

Some of the better-known Fabians include atheist-turned Theosophist Annie Besant, the virulently anti-Christian dramatist George Bernard Shaw, the atheist novelist H.G. Wells, and Rupert Brooke, the Agnostic poet.

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2011-01-02
January 2: Isaac Asimov

"Since I am an atheist, and do not believe that either God or Satan, Heaven or Hell, exists, I can only suppose that when I die, there will only be an eternity of nothingness to follow."

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2010-12-20
December 20: Sidney Hook

"As a set of cognitive beliefs, religion is a speculative hypothesis of low order of probability."

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2010-12-19
December 19: A Christmas Carol

What enraged the clerics of Dickens' day was not capitalist excess, but that Dickens took Christ out of Christmas. Scrooge is shamed into changing his narrow, grasping, capitalist ways by being shown for the first time their human cost.

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