February 2012
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“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private...”
– Ulysses S. Grant
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Know Your Freethinker: Brad Pitt
Classification: Agnostic Atheist
Occupation: Actor, film producer.
“I’m probably 20 per cent atheist and 80 per cent agnostic. I don’t think anyone really knows. You’ll either find out or not when you get there, until then there’s no point thinking about it.”
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“I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for...”
– Orson Welles
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Know Your Freethinker: Bo Burnham
Classification: Ambiguous Freethinker (he doesn’t talk much about it)
Occupation: Comedian, musician, prodigy.
All the seats at the sunday masses, Filled with the mass’s massive asses, Classes pass as fast as molasses. Ceremonial reading glasses. Read a little bit of Leviticus. All the kids are a little too little for this. All the parents nod in agreement - “I think I...
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Know Your Freethinker: Bjork
Classification: Atheist
Occupation: Musician and occasional actress.
“Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, ‘ourselves’. I think I’m in that group. If I get into trouble, there’s no God or Allah to sort me out. I...
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“In no instance have … the churches been guardians of the liberties of the...”
– James Madison
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“No, I don’t know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor...”
– George W. Bush
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Know Your Freethinker: Billie Joe Armstrong
Classification: Agnostic
Occupation: Rock musician.
Though he tends to keep his opinions quiet outside the realm of the music studio, he stated on an episode of Real Time with Bill Maher that “religion is a bunch of bullshit.”
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“If you are right to believe that religious faith offers the only real basis for...”
– Sam Harris
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Know Your Freethinker: Bill Maher
Classification: Atheist
Occupation: Comedian, TV host, political commentator.
“When I hear from people that religion doesn’t hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression of women, the suppression of homosexuals, fatwas, honor killings, suicide bombings, arranged marriages to minors, human sacrifice, burning...
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“When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and...”
– Robert Ingersoll
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Know Your Freethinker: Anjelica Huston
Classification: Agnostic
Occupation: Academy Award-winning actress and model, daughter of director John Huston.
“I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I’m the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don’t believe. I am constantly between the two.”
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Know Your Freethinker: Angelina Jolie
Classification: Friendly Atheist
Occupation: Academy Award-winning actress and director.
“I respect all religions. What I don’t respect is when people use religion to attack others. I’ve met people across the world, in the middle of nowhere, who are just trying to survive and all they have is religion. In some way it helps them, and I wouldn’t take it away from...
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“I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and...”
– Theodore Roosevelt