Quotes by people born on this date
Sam Harris (1967)
“It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.”
—"Letter to a Christian Nation" (Knopf, Sept. 19, 2006)
Hugh Hefner (1926)
"It’s perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It’s something we have invented to explain the inexplicable.”
—Hefner interview in Playboy (January 2000)
Charles Baudelaire (1821)
“God is the only being who does not have to exist in order to reign.”
—Baudelaire, quoted in "Who's Who in Hell" by Warren Allen Smith (2000)
Paul Robeson (1898)
"A polyglot (10 languages, from Chinese to Swahili), he spoke out against man's inhumanity to man and utilized naturalistic rather than supernaturalistic terms in arguing his outlook."
—Warren Allen Smith, "Who's Who in Hell" (2000)
Tom Lehrer (1928)
“First you get down on your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect,
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!
Do whatever steps you want, if
You have cleared them with the Pontiff.
Everybody say his own
Kyrie eleison,
Doin' the Vatican Rag.
Get in line in that processional,
Step into that small confessional,
There, the guy who's got religion'll
Tell you if your sin's original.
If it is, try playin' it safer,
Drink the wine and chew the wafer,
Two, four, six, eight,
Time to transubstantiate!
So get down upon your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect,
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!
Make a cross on your abdomen,
When in Rome do like a Roman,
Ave Maria,
Gee it's good to see ya,
Gettin' ecstatic an'
Sorta dramatic an'
Doin' the Vatican Rag!”
—"The Vatican Rag," words and music by Tom Lehrer (1965)
Paul Krassner (1932)
"I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan."
—Krassner, "Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut" (1993)
© Freedom From Religion Foundation. All rights reserved.
“It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.”
—"Letter to a Christian Nation" (Knopf, Sept. 19, 2006)
Hugh Hefner (1926)
"It’s perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It’s something we have invented to explain the inexplicable.”
—Hefner interview in Playboy (January 2000)
Charles Baudelaire (1821)
“God is the only being who does not have to exist in order to reign.”
—Baudelaire, quoted in "Who's Who in Hell" by Warren Allen Smith (2000)
Paul Robeson (1898)
"A polyglot (10 languages, from Chinese to Swahili), he spoke out against man's inhumanity to man and utilized naturalistic rather than supernaturalistic terms in arguing his outlook."
—Warren Allen Smith, "Who's Who in Hell" (2000)
Tom Lehrer (1928)
“First you get down on your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect,
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!
Do whatever steps you want, if
You have cleared them with the Pontiff.
Everybody say his own
Kyrie eleison,
Doin' the Vatican Rag.
Get in line in that processional,
Step into that small confessional,
There, the guy who's got religion'll
Tell you if your sin's original.
If it is, try playin' it safer,
Drink the wine and chew the wafer,
Two, four, six, eight,
Time to transubstantiate!
So get down upon your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect,
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!
Make a cross on your abdomen,
When in Rome do like a Roman,
Ave Maria,
Gee it's good to see ya,
Gettin' ecstatic an'
Sorta dramatic an'
Doin' the Vatican Rag!”
—"The Vatican Rag," words and music by Tom Lehrer (1965)
Paul Krassner (1932)
"I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan."
—Krassner, "Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut" (1993)
© Freedom From Religion Foundation. All rights reserved.
