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January 29, 2010 Geddy Lee -- front man of the rock band Rush. Here, Geddy Lee is talking about the song "Faithless" in the video documentary on the MVI edtion of their album Snakes & Arrows (2007):
"If you look at the chorus, which to me is the most important part of the song, it talks about life. It talks about life when you're not a very religious person, when you're not a church goer, when you're just a person. I mean, you can call it being an atheist, you can call it whatever you want to call it but there's many people who don't identify with a practice of a particular religion and there're many people who find their own road, and find their own spirituality in themselves and find things to believe in that relate to the way they live. And that's what the song is really about. You know, believing in hope, believing in love; those are two things you can count on believing in and there are not many other things you can really count on in this world. Others find it great comfort to find a religion and to get their strength from that, and that's fine, and many people don't and I think that song is about the ones that don't."
January 23, 2010
Robbie Williams -- The Ambiguous?
Huge star in Europe most famous for his religious song "Angels."
From interview with The Irish Times 2009:
On Catholicism: "I didn't fancy that. It was boring, damp and the sex was awful."
On where he stands with religion: “Then that drifts away, and you’re kind of part atheist, part the-first-problem-that-comes-up-you-go-straight-to-God... No, but really ... where I am with all that stuff at the moment is that I’m an atheist up until the shit hits the fan, then I’ll be on my knees quicker than anybody else.”
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2009/1016/1224256752014.html
January 21, 2010 [Sting] Agnosticism (added to list) --Sapient 04:36, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Page for James Cameron created. --Sapient 16:01, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
December 23, 2009
December 13, 2009
I noticed Jawaharlal Nehru is missing, as well as Samuel R. Delany. -- Wonderist
From http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru :
"What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me." -- Nehru
From http://citypaper.net/articles/2009/12/10/bad-santa :
"Though I'm an atheist, I think Santa is a generous, large-hearted image that has lost a lot of its religious baggage. Besides, respecting other folks' religions is a good quality — at least in terms of their good intentions. It's among the primary American values; it's what our country was founded on." -- SRD
October 21, 2009
Nomad I created an article for Carl Reiner with the quote you submitted, thanks! --Sapient 05:31, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks Sapient, but I have a question. Last year I submitted a quote from Peter Fonda In a 2007 Interview, but he was never added to the list. Why?
Nomad, this site wasn't being properly maintained for quite a while, I plan to go through the sandbox and add as much as I can to the list. I created the page on Peter Fonda and removed the quote from here. --Sapient
October 3, 2009
Bill Maher done
September 30, 2009
US cartoonist Crumb zaps the Bible
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hbD5HEQK0PcZz2Jnxi0ODWrWWcWw
Subversive US cartoonist Robert Crumb, whose take on the Bible is about to be released worldwide, says people are "totally nuts" for taking the book so seriously for so long.
"I grew to hate the Bible," he told a press conference for the international launch of "Robert Crumb's Book of Genesis", which he called a "gruelling" four year project. The book hits bookshelves in late October in Europe, Brazil and the United States.
"The idea of millions of people taking this so seriously is totally nuts," he added. "The Bible doesn't need to be satirised. It's already so crazy."
September 18, 2009
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blog/captain_kirk_is_godless
http://lookathisbutt.blogspot.com/
From a clipping found at the wonderful site Memory Prime. This was written in 1968, shortly after Bill's father had passed away. I'll post more from it later, but this is quite interesting, esp. for 1968! After a moment I said, "You have no religious beliefs...or hopes of an afterlife?"
Bill regarded me soberly for a moment and then he smiled, a wry little half smile. "No. I don't. Emotionally I would like to believe there is a life after death. Intellectually...I cannot accept the idea.
"We send our little daughters to Sunday school. It's important for them to have basic religious training. But as for myself, I have finally come to the conclusion that life is here and now...and nothing more."
August 29, 2009
He is the bassist in U2, a popular Irish rock band that is well-known for making overtly Christian statements through Bono, its frontman and lyricist. It is well-documented that Adam once threatened to leave the band when the other three members briefly joined a cult-like evangelical group in 1981. In the autobiography U2 by U2, bandmembers describe Adam as "extremely negative toward any religious organization or anything spiritual."
August 3, 2009
he was an American filmmaker known directing the films The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952) The Misfits (1960), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), and Annie (1982).
In his autobiography, An Open Book (p. 234) he writes:
"Ireland is ninety-six percent Catholic. I wanted it known immediately that I had no orthodox religion, so I announced right off the bat that I was an atheist. And I had the feeling they were particularly nice to me. "He's a good fellow who's surely going to hell, so why not make things as pleasant as possible for him--temporarily?" They certainly did that." [1]
August 3, 2009
He was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active Communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo.
As an adult, he was a self-proclaimed atheist. [2]
In response to a controversy regarding his mural, Dreams of a Sunday in the Alamdea, which portrayed Ignacio Ramírez holding a sign reading, "God does not exist" (which he refused to remove), Rivera responded:
"I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves." [3]
August 3, 2009
She is British actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council.
"I'm an atheist; I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an, and I refute them." [4]
August 3, 2009
He was a music producer who was regarded as one of the major record industry players behind music from the 1950s through the 1980s. He coined the term "rhythm and blues", and was integral in signing and/or producing many of the biggest acts of the last 50 years, including Ray Charles, Chris Connor, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Wilson Pickett, Dusty Springfield and Bob Dylan. Wexler was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Jerry Wexler was one of the most highly-regarded A&R men in popular music history.
During the recording of Bob Dylan's first "born again" album, Slow Train Coming, Wexler was unaware of the Christian themes until Dylan started evangelizing him. Wexler responded:
"Bob, you're dealing with a sixty-two-year-old confirmed Jewish atheist. I'm hopeless. Let's just make an album." [5]
August 3, 2009
moved Gorbachev info to his article --Sapient 04:36, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
August 3, 2009
Creator and CEO of the popular social networking site Facebook.
His religious views on his Facebook profile are "atheist". [6]
August 3, 2009
He is an English-born Australian[1] Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated actor and musician, perhaps best known for his critically acclaimed portrayal of Anterograde amnesia victim Leonard Shelby in Christopher Nolan's Memento, his performance as Lieutenant Ed Exley in the film L.A. Confidential, and for his role as Mike Young in the popular Australian television series Neighbours.
In a piece by the LA Times, Pearce states:
"I've got a T-shirt that says, 'Jesus saves,' and the 's' in 'Jesus' is a big dollar sign," he says. "I've worn it here [in America] and had people come up on the street and go, 'You can't wear that.' People in Australia think it's funny. I'm fascinated by religion. I don't believe in God, but the thing I do believe in is that we're all connected. And I guess that's what other people might call God. I don't know enough about religion to really say, but on some level, doesn't everyone just believe in a different version of the same thing?" [7]
In an Interview segment with the A.V. Club called "Is There a God?" this is what Pearce said:
The Onion: Is there a God?
Guy Pearce: Uh, yeah, absolutely. [Pauses.] Do you want to know His name, or...? I just think it's within everybody; it's the connection that everybody has together, you know? I think that's what the power is.
O: So you don't think there's a spirit in the sky, but something that's inside all of us?
GP: Yeah, exactly. His name's Brian. [8]
Removed Barack Obama Sr. and created page for him. --Sapient 16:33, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
August 3, 2009
He is an Emmy Award winning American screenwriter, producer, voice artist, musician and actor, best known for being the co-creator of South Park along with creative partner Trey Parker.
In an interview with the A.V. Club with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, they are asked if they believe in God. Parker doesn't, but here is Matt Stone's answer:
O: Matt Stone, is there a God?
Matt Stone: No. [9]
That being said, Stone is NOT an atheist. He is an agnostic and clarifies this in later interviews.
In the commentary for the South Park episode Go God Go, which features Richard Dawkins, Stone talks about how they have been wrongly perceived as atheists. He paraphrases an interaction he remembers in their Nightline interview:
Interviewer: So, you guys are atheists?...because you've made fun of religion a lot on the show.
MS: What? No. We're not atheists. [10] (at 0:20)
During an October 14, 2004 NPR interview on Fresh Air NPR interview, Stone stated:
"I'm Jewish simply because... my mom is Jewish... but... I grew up completely secular and completely agnostic... I am the worst Jew in the world. I know nothing about the religion. I'm completely agnostic (my poor mother)." [11]
made page for Bree Olson --Sapient 04:36, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
August 3, 2009
She is an English-born animal rights activist, author, and president and co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world's largest animal rights organization.[1] She is the author of several books about animal liberation, including Free the Animals (2000).
In the HBO documentary about her life, I Am an Animal, she states:
“I'm an atheist. I don't believe in God. I believe that the horrors in this world could not ever have been created by a loving God. I believe in kindness, I believe in personal responsibility, and I believe in being decent to people." [12] (warning: this video EXTREMELY violent footage. I strongly urge you not to watch)
August 3, 2009
He is an American biologist and businessman.[1] Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research. His for-profit efforts used public domain data generated by the Human Genome Project[2], but could be used to generate high quality data on their own.[3] He was listed on Time Magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
In a segment of Richard Dawkins' award winning series, The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews, Dawkins has the following exchange with Venter.
RD: Well, Craig, you're obviously proving that real intelligent design works. CV: Absolutely. RD: But are you sometimes accused of playing God? CV: Uh, it's come up on a few headlines here and there. But uh, there's a couple different versions. My best friend and colleague that's working with us - Ham [Hamilton] Smith, the Nobel Laureate - his answer to that is, “we don't play.” (*laughs*) RD: What's your answer? CV: My flippant answer is, “I don't play mythical characters.” [13] (at 48:00)
July 31, 2009
He was an English comedic actor and filmmaker. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid "Classical Hollywood" era of American cinema.
Chaplin is quoted as saying, "By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none" in the book Manual of a Perfect Atheist by Eduardo Del Rio Garcia. [14]
Also, in My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin, he writes about a dinner at which Sergei Rachmaninoff also attended:
"Someone brought the topic round to religion and I confessed I was not a believer. Rachmaninoff quickly interposed: "But how can you have art without religion?"
I was stumped for a moment. "I don't think we are talking about the same thing," I said. "My concept of religion is a belief in a dogma--that art is a feeling more than a belief."
"So is religion," he answered. After that I shut up. [15]
July 31, 2009
She is an American author, who has published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novel them (1969) won the National Book Award, and her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000) were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. With a reputation for prolificness, Oates has been one of the leading American novelists since the 1960s.
In 2007 she was presented with the Humanist of the Year award at the 66th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association in Portland, Oregon. She gave an acceptance speech, followed by a Q&A and stated the following:
"As a novelist I tend to be sympathetic with persons who are religious, though I can't share in their convictions. It has always been something of a mystery to me that intelligent, educated men and women--as well as the uneducated--can "have faith" in an invisible and nonexistent God." [16]
July 30, 2009
He is an Australian philosopher specializing in the area of philosophy of mind. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University.
During a radio show called All in the Mind, Chalmers states, "Now I have to say I’m a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it’s a natural fact of life." [17]
July 30, 2009
She was an English novelist, essayist, letterist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
In a 1928 letter to a mutual friend of T.S. Eliot, she writes:
"I have had a most shameful and distressing interview with dear Tom Eliot, who may be called dead to us all from this day forward. He has become an Anglo-Catholic believer in God and immortality, and goes to church. I was shocked. A corpse would seem to me more credible than he is. I mean, there’s something obscene in a living person sitting by the fire and believing in God." [18]
NOTE: there is a quote by Woolf circulating around many celebrity atheist sites, which purports to demonstrate her atheism. This quote was taken out of context and does NOT speak to her atheism. Below is the quote in context and I've bolded the snippet that certain atheist websites are displaying:
"From this I reach what might be called a philosophy; at any rate it is a constant idea of mine; that behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we - I mean all human beings - are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself" (Moments of Being, p. 72)
July 30, 2009
He is a Chilean scholar in comparative religion, playwright, film director, film producer, composer, actor, mime, comic book writer, tarot reader, historian and psychotherapist. He is most famous for his films 'Santa Sangre', 'El Topo', and 'The Holy Mountain', as well as for his collaborative work on graphic novels with the comic legend, Moebius.
Although he is famous as a tarot card reader, Jodorowsky is a self-described "atheist mystic". [19]
July 30, 2009
He is the founder of the Edge Foundation, an organization aimed to bring together people working at the edge of a broad range of scientific and technical fields. He is also a literary agent, specializing in scientific literature.
"I mean I don't believe: I'm sure there's no God. I'm sure there's no afterlife. But don't call me an atheist. It's like a losers' club. When I hear the word atheist, I think of some crummy motel where they're having a function and these people have nowhere else to go. That's what it means in America. In the UK it's very different." [20]
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July 30, 2009
An American actor and comedian. He began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon, before earning lead roles in several critically acclaimed projects in the 2000s including American Splendor, Sideways, Cinderella Man, and John Adams.
In an interview with Total Film...
Q: Do you get the big star treatment at home now? PG: No, no. My wife treats me worse now. She has no tolerance for that sort of behavior! She’s Jewish and my son will probably be raised Jewish. I’m an atheist, so I’m waiting for my time to step in and tell him how things really are but I’ll do that when he’s a teenager. I figure he’ll be ripe for atheism when he’s a teenager.[21]
July 22, 2009
Brad Pitt BILD Interview http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/celebrity-gossip/2009/07/22/brad-pitt-interview/inglourious-basterd-star-on-angelina-jolie-and-six-kids.html
BILD: Do you believe in God?
Brad Pitt (smiling): “No, no, no!”
BILD: Is your soul spiritual?
Brad Pitt: “No, no, no! 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.
July 6, 2009
Jason Nicholas Miller states In this video that he Is an Atheist - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrLbZoSJIfE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Miller_(fighter) Jason Nicholas Miller (born December 24, 1980) is an American mixed martial arts middleweight fighter known for both his flashy entrances and exciting fighting style. He primarily utilizes Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and Muay Thai, and trains at Team Quest in Temecula, California. Jason has also trained extensively with Randy Couture, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Marc Laimon. He regularly co-hosts "Mayhem Mondays" on the Jason Ellis Show on Sirius satellite radio.[1] Mayhem also hosts a reality show called Bully Beatdown, which aires on MTV and MTV2.
June 29, 2009
Emma Thompson English Academy Award-, Emmy Award-, BAFTA Award-, and Golden Globe-winning actress, comedian, and screenwriter.
From The Australian (10/15/08):
Thompson is equally vociferous on matters of faith. For Waugh, a Catholic convert, the central theme of Brideshead Revisited is religion (or "the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters"). Thompson is with Charles Ryder on this one.
"I'm an atheist; I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Koran, and I refute them."
She knows she's being controversial, but she believes passionately in what she says, and passionately believes it needs saying.
"I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly," she continues, frowning a little.
"I feel quite strongly that we need a new moral lodestone if we can't rely on what is inside our own selves. Which I think, actually, is pretty reliable."
Full text of article: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24497883-15803,00.html
June 29, 2009
José González Swedish indie folk musician
From RollingStone.com / "Breaking Artist: José González" (9/19/07):
Three Things You Should Know: 1. González, who considers himself an atheist, titled his new album In Our Nature in reference to the debate over whether human behavior is biologically dictated. Science, philosophy, and religion are major lyrical themes for him. “I don’t want to be too harsh, but there’s very little evidence for ‘intelligent design’ or any sort of creator,” he explains.
Full text of article: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/09/19/breaking-artist-jose-gonzalez/
From New York Magazine (9/26/08):
Soft-spoken indie minimalist (and proud atheist) José González first won Stateside attention based on the strength of his whispery covers (The Knife’s "Heartbeat," most famously) before dazzling critics with the intricate originals on his second album, In Our Nature. This Sunday, González hits the Gowanus with a special set at New York’s “Campire on the Canal” event. This week, he spoke to Vulture about what songs he will (or will not) be playing this weekend, his upcoming tour of the Middle East, and believing in Santa Claus.
Can we request "Kumbaya" for the campfire on Sunday? That would be fun. I can't guarantee I remember all the words, though. I think we used to sing it in kindergarten.
I think you'd actually get more requests not to play that. Also, isn't it about God? Yeah, that’s right. It's "Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya," right? I think Kumbaya is Swahili — I’m not sure. I actually believe in one god. The nylon-string guitar god.
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Do you expect any backlash for saying that In Our Nature was inspired by Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion? I did like two hours of interviews with newspapers and magazines from Israel, and some of them were telling me that, yeah, you probably shouldn’t say that you're an atheist. I find that funny. But I am invited to play there because of my music so I am not going to make a big deal about not believing in Santa Claus.
Well, you could say over there that you don’t believe in Santa Claus. Yeah, and also that I don’t believe in Thor. You know thunder? It comes from electricity in the clouds? "I Don’t Think It's From Thor" is my next song.
Full text of article: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/09/jos_gonzlez_on_learning_portug.html
From Spinner (7/3/07):
Jose Gonzalez Challenges Religion With 'Nature' Jose Gonzalez can write a damn good love song, but on his new album, 'In Our Nature,' due Sept. 25, the soft-spoken Swede challenges human belief in God and religion -- with a sense of humor. "Religion is a sensitive subject and it's more important to be humble than to force your view on other people," Gonzalez tells Spinner. "But I think Winnie the Pooh is a more interesting story than the Bible."
Inspired by 'The God Delusion' -- a Richard Dawkins book that Gonzalez calls "anti-religion" -- 'Nature' is the follow-up to 2005's 'Veneer.' Look for Gonzalez's second appearance on the Interface coming in September, and download his debut Interface podcast.
Full text of article: http://www.spinner.com/2007/07/03/jose-gonzalez-challenges-religion-with-nature/
From San Francisco City Beat (3/18/08):
Questions about science and religion are usually the stuff of academic journals and National Public Radio, not fodder for handsome, brooding musicians. Yet those are the prickly subjects tackled by José González, a singer-songwriter born in Sweden to Argentine parents, on his latest album, In Our Nature.
González calls himself an atheist. Before he began racking up gold records in Sweden, he was working on a doctorate degree in biochemistry at the University of Gothenburg. He ultimately picked music over science, but his evolution as a musician is nevertheless informed by his education as a scientist.
“I can appreciate things like yoga or listening to music and getting lost in the moment, which some people might consider spiritual,” González says. “But at the same time, I’ve been trained to see the difference between an explanation that’s sufficient and one that really isn’t sufficient. Rationality is the way I think.”
That said, González freely admits that science doesn’t have all the answers, either.
“I really enjoy the big questions,” he says, “the ones that have to do with ethics or free will that are more difficult to address with scientific methods and are mostly discussed within philosophy or religion.”
Much of In Our Nature deals with a core question of humanity: How do we become who we are? González shrugs off the idea of a world with inherent good and evil, made so by some omnipotent being.
“There’s a certain degree of probabilistic determinism in the way we are,” González explains. “I think it’s pretty obvious that some people, because of a different structure in their brain, have a diminished sense of what’s right or wrong. One could say that they might be inherently evil, but I think we all have a tendency to do evil things if we’re in a situation that leads us to it, unfortunately.”
A disheartening response, especially when delivered in accented science-speak—seriously, who pulls out “probabilistic determinism” in conversation?—but then González adds: “In the same way, I think we are all able to do very good things, and we do, every day, without thinking about it.”
The God Delusion by British biologist Richard Dawkins inspired much of In Our Nature’s lyrical content. The book takes a highly critical (and widely criticized) stance against intelligent design and organized religion while arguing that religion is oppressive and the world would be better off without it.
González’s song “Abram”—which refers to the biblical Abraham who nearly sacrifices his son to a demanding God before an angel grants him reprieve—is slightly more lighthearted in its theological criticism.
“The song is about questioning the blind faith to these scriptures and trying to say that in a joking way—not to be too harsh,” González clarifies.
He calls the ancient biblical stories “myths” and directly alludes to Dawkins’ book on “Abram” with the line “You’ve aided delusions and created bias in our minds.” Abram, the song says, is “sleepwalking with a delirious head.”
“There are different sorts of Christianity and different sorts of Islam,” González points out. “I’m saying either wake up or go to bed. There are many versions of Christianity and Islam that have woken up, but the fact that some still take scriptures too seriously is a problem. They’re not really reasoning. They’re throwing in the towel every time by relying on these scriptures.”
Contrary to common rationalizations for religion, González is doubtful that humankind would fall into moral anarchy were religion to disappear.
“The fact that we live close to each other as human animals has made us come up with ways to live with each other,” he offers. “We might have some moral instincts—and many people are saying that we do have that. And, of course, through culture and seeing how people treat each other and noticing what makes a good way of living, you learn how to be a moral person.”
In Our Nature may not earn a spot on the iPods of Christian Coalition members, but the album offers entertainment value beyond its intellectually stimulating lyrics. González’s arrangements build on a lushness only hinted at on his sparse 2005 debut, Veneer. Classically inflected guitar work and melodious, gentle vocals get a boost from synths, backup vocals and even the occasional handclap.
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González says there’s room for questioning on subjects like global warming, as it forces scientists to find compelling evidence. But sometimes that skepticism can go too far.
“It’s usually the people who have to make the biggest sacrifices that don’t want to believe,” he says. But what about Abraham, willing to sacrifice his own offspring for his beliefs?
“I’m glad he didn’t have to do that,” González laughs.
Full text of article: http://www.sdcitybeat.com/cms/story/detail/natural_selection/6739/
June 24, 2009
Mike Burkett, aka Fat Mike Lead singer and bassist for NOFX Bassist for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
I couldn't find quotes outside of his music lyrics, such as these from "Happy Guy" "how could he Turn his back on on reason worshiping A God finding truth through fear and mind control" "Turned his back on free will - has he lost his mind? He'd rather kneel down than take charge of his life" "His hopes may be false but his happiness is real"
June 20, 2009
The famous, innovative screenwriter behind such feature films as 'Being John Malkovich', 'Adaptation', 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', and 'Synecdoche, New York'.
During a public Q&A after the Seattle premiere of 'Synecdoche, New York', Kaufman is asked by an audience member about his apparent disinterest in questions of a religious nature.
AM: Why don't these characters ever look for God?
CK: That's sort of like asking me, 'Why aren't they lumberjacks?' The answer is, 'Because I don't write about lumberjacks.'
(*Audience laughter*)
CK: I'm not making fun of you at all. It just doesn't resonate with me. I don't think God is a guy, or a woman, if God exists at all. But other people around me can relate to me in ways that are tangible.... I read a lot of philosophical stuff about religion, metaphysics, and the universe, and I'm really fascinated with it. But my feelings about it are that there's not an anthropomorphic version of someone watching over us who's going to love me. I could be wrong, but that's who I am. And the stuff that I write about is the stuff that I think about.
http://imagejournal.org/page/blog/being-charlie-kaufman
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June 19, 2009 James Watson and E.O. Wilson
The two legendary scientists appeared on a special hour-long episode of Charlie Rose to discuss the life and work of Charles Darwin.
CR: How have people come to reconcile religion and evolution?
JW: Well, I think it's, we better define religion. If it's a personal God who interferes with our lives, and listens to our prayers, and is aware of our existence. Uh, I really, I can only mention one person that I know who believes that who's a serious scientist who believes Who is a serious scientist.
CR: Only one serious scientist you know believes there is a personal god who listens to our prayers?
JW: Yeah, that's about it.
EOW:I don't know one. I know who you're talking about. Well, I guess I know him. Yeah, okay.
CR: Francis Collins. Francis Collins is often quoted.
JW: Yeah, but I really don't know anyone else. And I think that now that we've carried the course when we actually look at DNA and see what it's like in the chimpanzee and you see all these things. The thought of anyone interfering.....oh boy! (*laughter*). It just....seems wacko.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6927851714963534233
May 19, 2009
Sasha Grey has on her Myspace profile "Atheist" as her Religion
http://www.myspace.com/sashagrey
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2340248
Porn Goes Mainstream http://www.backstage.com/bso/news-and-features-features/porn-goes-mainstream-1003974245.story
May 17, 2009
Model and host of Project Runway said in the June 2009 issue of Vogue Germany:
"I believe I have a healthy common sense and, therefore, have no need for religion."
She also said in an interview for The Independent (UK) in 2004:
"I don't know whether my looks come from God. I'm not really religious. I don't really know what I am. I'm just trying to be a good person."
May 12, 2009
Co-host of Mythbusters confirmed his atheism via twitter.
http://twitter.com/donttrythis/status/1769015553
@donttrythis hey Adam. Random question: agnostic, atheist, or theist? 9:27 PM May 11th from Tweetie in reply to donttrythis
@Filioque. Atheist. 9:31 PM May 11th from TwitterFon in reply to Filioque
4th April 2009
Mick Jagger, in a 2007 interview in the UK's Independent newspaper states his non-belief thus:
"Like most English people I'm not a great believer. I've read Richard Dawkins' book and it's very persuasive. I'm more in awe of the universe and that's not really a belief in God. It's a belief in something. I don't have belief in the Holy Book. I don't think many English people do."
... not exactly an out and out exclamation of atheism, however he is saying that he is definitely not a christian. (Or for that matter a muslim or jew etc.)
The complete interview can be found here:
23rd March 2009
Multi Academy, Emmy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA award winner, Emma Thompson describes herself as an atheist, and is particularly suspicious and fearful of religion. She says she is offended by some of the content of the bible and koran.
See here for details:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24497883-15803,00.html
March 13 2009
On the 3-13-09 episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, Sarah Silverman stated that she Is not religious.
5th March 2009
One for the Brits...
Andrew Marr, author, political commentator and BBC interview programme show host is an atheist. He describes his non-belief starting at aged 15 when he was a Presbyterian, thus:
"I'm a lapsed Presbyterian Christian. I had a blinding revelation of disbelief at the age of around 15.
It was every bit as clear and convincing as others describe revelations of faith."
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7924423.stm for details.
4th February 2009
Dr Brian Cox, according to an article/interview in the UK's Sun newspaper is an atheist. He was formerly the keybord player for D:Ream and is now a research scientist at Manchester University and CERN. He appears on UK TV science programmes, often fronting complete documentaries.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/article1985696.ece
14th January 2009
Somehow you seem to have forgotten Jonathan Miller of Beyond the Fringe fame. In his BBC documentary Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief he mentioned that he never had any religious faith and considers himself an atheist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Miller#2000s:_Atheism
31st December 2008
I have been saving this one to end the year with a flourish. Dame Helen Mirren in a 2007 interview is referred to as 'a lifelong atheist'. The full quote in the article writes about Mirren's mother Kathleen being an atheist, "like her daughter". See here:
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/nothing-like-a-dame-1206673.html
...for details. It's about 3/4 down the page.
Happy New Year!
29th Decmber 2008
He is best known as the actor who plays Kryten on the tv show Red Dwarf and the co-host of the UK's "Scrapheap Challenge".
At the end of the program "who's got god's millions?", which was broadcast (as a repeat) on the UK's Channel 5 on 29th December 2008, Robert referred to himself "as an atheist".
29th October 2008
Marcus du Sautoy, the new Simonyi professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford universty, TV populariser of both science and mathematics states he is an atheist during an interview here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/oct/28/marcus-du-sautoy-dawkins-public-understanding-science
...the interview can be heard by clicking on the audio icon at the bottom of the page. His recent history of mathematics can be viewed using the BBCi Player at http://www.bbc.co.uk (only available to UK users).
16th September 2008
Clive James, expatriate Australian author, poet, critic, memoirist, talk show host, television presenter, travel writer and cultural commentator, defines himself as an atheist. He did as such during a conversation with Richard Dawkins at the 2008 Edinburg Book Festival. A link to the audio of the conversation can be found on the RichardDawkins.net website, here:
15th September 2008
Peter Higgs, the (now retired) theoretical physicist who was one of the first to postulate an explanation for the origin of object mass, has recently become most famous. His theoretical work is at the core of the LHC project. Read the following article where he states he is an atheist:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/nov/17/sciencenews.particlephysics
3rd September 2008
Omar Sharif, film actor, (Dr Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia and many other movies) states he and his son are both atheists in a 2002 interview:
http://omarsharif.netfirms.com/articles.htm#El%20Mundo%20interview%20--%202002
(The section in question is about 1/10th of the way down the page.)
1st September 2008
Peter Fonda, in a 2007 interview, states he is an atheist:
http://movies.about.com/od/310toyuma/a/310yumabf82107_2.htm?p=1
25th Aug 2008
Dom Joly (Trigger Happy TV, The Complainers), british TV comedian states he is an atheist here:
He was born in Beirut, Lebanon and had the dubious pleasure of going to the same school as Osama bin Laden.
22nd August 2008
Robson Green, British TV actor declares he is an atheist here:
15th Aug 2008
Bjorn Ulvaeus (yup, the guy from ABBA) talks about his atheism here:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3jqZqPilO-Y&feature=related
12th Aug 2008
Will Wright (legendary computer games designer) describes himself as an atheist here:
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=211273
Chelsea Handler
A late night comedy show host on E! which jokes about celebrities. Her mother was a Mormon and father was Jewish. She identifies herself as a Jew, but on one show she made statements that made her appear to be either agnostic or atheist. The discussion turned to Woody Harrelson and his desire to be a recluse, to which she stated that he said "He wants to live on an island and eat nothing for 40 days."
Afterwards she said "There are only 3 people who have survived without eating for 40 days. There's Jesus, and we don't even know is that story's true, Moses, another fictional character, and Posh Spice."
For those Brits of a certain age, quite a surprising one...
Peter Purves of Blue Peter (and early Dr Who) fame declares himself an atheist here (about 3/4 of the way down).
http://www.retrosellers.com/features148.htm
He really isn't happy about religious belief either. From the article:
"Religion makes me angry but I don't get overheated about it but I really dislike it and am a confirmed atheist and I believe most of the world's troubles are caused by people who have some abounding faith in some stupid superstition. It also makes me sad and depresses me immensely that people can be so stupid. Defending this, that and the other based on total myths and nonsense."
Peter Purves still fronts various nationally broadcast TV programs.
Milton Friedman
Taken from Wikipedia:
Milton Friedman was not very outspoken on how he viewed the cosmos, and generally only discussed the concept of God when asked. He was known to have told others that he did not 'believe in' God, but thought it was impossible to know whether God existed or not, so he considered himself technically agnostic. He claimed that religious views had little to do with economics, but much more with values. He said he could have good values without believing in such a deity.
Taken from Wikipedia:
Moore considers herself spiritual, and has said that she does not think of herself as distinctly Catholic nor Christian.[5] In early 2007, Moore stated that during the previous year, she had undergone a "really crazy time" in her life, asking herself "life-altering questions".[90]
“‘Karmacode’ is about spirituality. But we’re not dictated by any religion. It’s so abused for wars and disagreements that it’s like it’s lost all meaning. Religions are basically rules of life. Don’t steal, don’t kill… but people seem to be too concerned with adoring their god and they forget to treat other people the same way. That’s a paradox. Italy isn’t some crazed religious country. People assume that it is because all they see in the Vatican and the Pope. I was raised as a Catholic but over the years I realized you don’t really need a church to feel the presence of something bigger than us. I don’t follow the mechanical things that make you a Catholic but at the same time I think I’m better than some of them.”
http://www.wrycraft.net/images/forum/20060412kerrang1.jpg
Actor, author, and musician Hugh Laurie was born in Oxford England. He has starred in various television series, such as “A Bit of Fry and Laurie,” “Jeeves and Wooster,” and “Blackadder the Third.” Most recently, Laurie has gained notoriety as the misanthropic doctor Gregory House on “House, MD.” He has also had numerous roles in movies such as “Street Kings” (2008), “Flight of the Phoenix” (2004), “Maybe Baybe,” (2000), and the “Stuart Little” series.
Laurie’s first novel, “The Gun Seller” was published in 1996, and met with acclaim and has reached best-seller status. It is to be followed by “The Paper Soldier,” due out in September 2009.
“A Bit of Fry and Laurie” often showcased Laurie’s musical talents, as he played various instruments including the piano, the guitar, the harmonica. Several skits featured Laurie singing comical lyrics in British and American accents. The piano playing and singing continued in the “Jeeves and Wooster” series, and has also appeared in some episodes of “House, MD.” In 2006, Laurie joined the charity cover band, “Band from TV.”
2003 Episode of “God Almighty” that aired in England
The premise of the show is that the guest gets to describe how he\she would change the world if he\she were god. A member asks, “Who would you create first, woman or man?”
“Oh, um. I see pitfalls either way. But see, the other problem I have, is that, being an atheist [audience laughs], is regards to this whole exercise is, it holds me back a bit. Unless I start to appear in people’s visions and tell them that ‘I don’t exist’ . . . think about that!”
From a 2006 appearance on Inside the Actors Studio (original air date: 7/31/06) he had the following exchange with James Lipton:
Lipton: Do you share Houses's skepticism? Laurie: [laughing] I do. Big chunks of it, yes. I'm not a religious man. Again, I think this is connected to my father. My father was religious oddly enough, but I nonetheless I suppose was impressed by [and] enamored of his devotion to medical science. I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22657520-5009160,00.html
October 28, 2007
The Daily Telegraph
Man about the House
"I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.
March, 2008
The Times
Hugh Laurie on House, fame and LA
He admits he can’t shake the idea “that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for”. One newspaper has taken to printing pictures of a glum-looking Laurie and asking why he doesn’t look happier, but his upbringing was Scottish Presbyterian, and Scottish Presbyterians are not supposed to look happy.
“The religious aspects didn’t mean a great deal,” he says. “I admire the music, buildings and ethics of religion, but I come unstuck on the God thing.” Some of the cultural aspects of Presbyterianism, however – “the denial of pleasure, the virtues of thrift and hard work” – have stayed with him. “I had a wonderful if uneventful upbringing. My parents were very loving, but there’s no question they were suspicious of ease and comfort. My mother was the first person I can think of who was into the idea of recycling. In about 1970, she was collecting newspapers from the whole village, baling them up and taking them to a paper mill. She’d get a shilling a half ton or something.”
Arne Christer Fuglesang (born March 18, 1957) is a Swedish scientist and an ESA astronaut. He was launched aboard the STS-116 Shuttle mission on 10 December 2006, at 01:47 GMT, making him the first Swede and the first Nordic citizen in space.
Was interviewed by Swedish newspaper DN in 10/12 2006. When the reporter told him a story about another astronaut in the Space station having a religious experience he was cut off by Christer, because Christer wanted to confirm to the reporter that he was an Atheist.
The article is unfortunately in Swedish only: http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2597&a=593360
By the time he entered college, Pitt had scuttled his fundamentalist beliefs. "When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self," he says. "I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible."
http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_10-07-2007/Brad_Pitt Ryz
J.G. Ballard, British science fiction author who wrote Crash and Empire of the Sun.
I'm going to try to create an entry for him, but I'm new here, so let me know if I'm not doing it properly. Thanks.
Late August 2007
Well chuff me, it turns out that Mother Teresa was an atheist! Even the catholic church isn't denying it. Quotes and citations are forthcoming from the old hag as and when the press (and vatican) release them.
See here for initial details:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20497111/site/newsweek/
Pete Stark - Democrat Congressman
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/a-nonbeliever--say-it-isnt-so/2007/08/10/1186530618725.html To his surprise, that was him. Stark was the only one of 535 federal politicians prepared to admit he had no religion. For a few brief weeks he was the poster-boy for the humanists in a nation where, according to Pew Foundation research, eight out of 10 people say they have "no doubt God exists" and that "prayer is an important part of their daily lives".
Whoopi Goldberg http://www.nndb.com/people/242/000025167
Mira Sorvino http://www.nndb.com/people/890/000025815 http://nogod.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/celebrity-atheist-003-mira-sorvino
Sarah Michelle Gellar http://www.nndb.com/people/511/000023442 http://nogod.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/celebrity-atheist-002-sarah-michelle-gellar
Katsoni - Adult Film Star --- She states on her Myspace that she Is an Atheist http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=77424151
Keith Allen, British comedian (and father of pop star Lily Allen) stated in plain language he did not believe in god (and, near the end of the show, was an atheist). This was done during the UK Channel 4 documentary 'Keith Allen will burn in hell', where he also revealed that the Westboro Baptist (Phelps) clan had an illegitimate family member... to their faces! Eventually, they admitted to it. I laughed like a drain.
The program was most interesting because Keith Allen gave better than he got back from the Phelps' buffoons.
Update, 25th September 2008 - I just found the video of Allen revealing the sordid Phelps family history (above). It can be watched here:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IWAawKFMYfs&NR=1
US Representative Pete Stark has been revealed as the highest-ranking nontheist US office-holder in the Secular Coalition for America's contest to find one; see its press release.
It may well be worth keeping an eye on Jonathan Edwards, the triple jump world record holder. Reports are coming in of this English, high-profile, hyper-Christian losing his faith. He is also being reported as quitting his religious TV front-man job as one of the presenters of the BBC's Songs of Praise.
Wiki has an entry about him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Edwards_%28athlete%29
...and the Mail on Sunday:
...and the Daily Mail:
Tim Kasher and Ted Stevens (the creative forces behind the rock band Cursive) describe themselves in a recent "Omaha Reader" article (http://www.timmcmahan.com/cursive4.htm) as an atheist and an agnostic, respectively. In addition, Conor Oberst (lead singer of Bright Eyes)'s University of Nebraska transcript identifies him as agnostic, presumably from a self-entered response on the ACT.
From PZ Myers's blog article on Susan Jacoby, this uncredited list of female nonbelievers:
Susan B. Anthony Margaret Atwood Simone de Beauvoir Bj�rk Susan Blackmore Susie Bright Elizabeth Cady-Stanton Patricia Churchland Marie Curie Ani DiFranco Phyllis Diller Barbara Ehrenreich Oriana Fallaci Jodie Foster Janeane Garofalo Nadine Gordimer Germaine Greer Angelina Jolie Katharine Hepburn Molly Ivins Diane Keaton Helen Keller Margot Kidder Florence King Ursula K. LeGuin Julianne Moore Madalyn Murray O'Hair Camille Paglia Katha Pollitt Paula Poundstone Robin Quivers Ayn Rand Lisa Randall Arundhati Roy Margaret Sanger Eugenie Scott Gloria Steinem Julia Sweeney Virginia Woolf
- This looks to be drawn from an earlier version of the CAL. LeGuin, for example, was removed a while back. --ReedEsau 17:24, 1 January 2007 (PST)
Mitchell Stephens is working on a book, "Without Gods: Toward a History of Disbelief", and his Cast of Characters may also be useful as a starting point.
Carvaka the Raxasa (founder of the Charvakas of India) Diagoras of Melos Protagoras of Abdera Democritus Carneades of Cyrene Cicero Elisha ben Abuyah Abu Nuwas Abu Bakr al-Razi Averroes Thomas Hobbes Thomas Aikenhead Jean Meslier Denis Diderot Baron d�Holbach Marquis de Sade Jacques-Ren� H�bert Pierre Simon Laplace Thomas Paine Percy Bysshe Shelley Frances Wright Harriet Martineau John Stuart Mill Ernestine Rose Karl Marx Charles Bradlaugh Friedrich Nietzsche Sigmund Freud Bertrand Russell Jean-Paul Sartre Simone de Beauvoir John Lennon Jacques Derrida Barbara Ehrenreich Salman Rushdie
to which his commenters added
George Eliot George Sand Tariq Ali Margaret Sanger Aphra Behn Lucretius Ayn Rand Christopher Marlowe Madalyn Murray O'Hair Vladimir Lenin Joseph Stalin Mao Zedong Gary Gilmore Jane Ellen Harrison Virginia Woolf Diotima Epicurus Ernest Becker
- Any of those are okay to add to the list (for those who aren't already present) provided the basic requirements are met. See Policies and Guidelines. Thanks. --ReedEsau 17:24, 1 January 2007 (PST)
I'm not sure if this qualifies her for the ambiguous page, but on Scarlet Johanson 1 2 3 She has also refused to answer questions regarding her religion.
Jennifer Michael Hecht's book Doubt: A History may contain some more names.
I have discovered A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers by Joseph McCabe (1920)
It could be a useful resource in doing research, but it ought to be treated with caution; that list contains several deists, pantheists, and nominal believers.
Brannon Braga; Producer, Writer and Actor from Star Trek fame wrote this article:
http://www.sidmennt.is/archives/2006/16/08/every_religion_has_a_mythology.php
Who Is PFUNK? ... Is he a Celebrity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WHf5HFDk10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkDfyLSz0GE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8B23yFNjw
... describes herself as not religious.
... describes his non-belief.
I have created a page about Eddie Izzard, but cannot find out how to enter it on to the main list. Perhaps it would be a good idea for some instructions to be made available?
http://www.horror-asylum.co.uk/interview/daviddecoteau/interview.asp
Added an entry to Ian McKellen's discussion page since I didn't know if it was something that should be added to the main page.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_2_51/ai_53662235/pg_2
When biographers Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews asked him about his faith for their 1993 book, Gates, the Congregationalist-raised billionaire displayed an astonishing nonchalance about religion: "Oh, I guess agnostic, atheist: I must be one of those things."
Some sources of quotes: Positive Atheism's Quotes Atheist Pinups
Musician Axella Johannesson has stated that she became an atheist before she reached her teens.
Crikey you don't make it easy do you! I just wanted to flag up a new name for your lists, non email contact, no message board, I've had to sign up and now I'm being threatened with html!
Charles Clarke UK govt home secretary , just been sacked, big name in the labour party, quote staing his non-belief:
From the Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/22/nedu22.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/03/22/ixhome.html
"
Clarke opposes creation teaching By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 22/03/2006)
Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, stepped into the controversy over creationism yesterday by declaring that he was "totally opposed" to the concept.
Mr Clarke, who said that he did not believe in God, insisted that science was the basis for progress and praised Charles Darwin as one of the greatest scientists in history."
Just wanted to add a celeb to the "not religious" category, Paul Hogan. References: (interview)http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s858507.htm (bio) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hogan
Someone had asked why he wasn't listed here.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH (1921-1995), Texas-born expatriate, author of such modernistic novels like Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, and memorable short-story collections, Little Tales of Misogyny, The Black House and The Animal Lover's Book of Beastly Murder. More popular in Europe than in the United States, she eventually won praises by literary maestros like Graham Greene and Gore Vidal.
According to her biography, A Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith had no faith in the after-life and loathed any form of organized religion. A good number of her stories and novels confirm such worldview.
In London, on 18 June 1988 she appeared in Channel 4's After Dark, a live and informal late-night show starting at 11.30 p.m. along with few other notable individuals to debate the question of how to survive a murder, including James Nelson, a minister in the Church of Scotland who had served nine years for the murder of his mother in 1969.
Central to the debate was also the question of absolution � was it possible to forgive the murderer? Highsmith's atheistic attitude stood in stark contrast to the strong Christianity of the Reverend James Nelson, who took the attitude that, ultimately, only God could forgive. "I'm not in such good touch with God as you", she said spikily. "When you say to me, 'It's only God [who can forgive],' how do I know God is going to even tell me?"
Atheist Astronomer/Sci-fi writer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle
Fred Hoyle was an atheist at one time. But he reject the big bang, evolution, and abiogenesis; He wrote a few famous creationist arguments, and eventually declared his own belief that life had been spontaneously created and that the universe was guided according to the deliberate intent of an intelligent creator. Such a person cannot be listed posthumously as atheist.
British filmmaker Paul Greengrass (United 93, The Bourne Supremacy, Bloody Sunday) admits he doesn't believe in god, even if he respects people who do. http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/callingtheshots/paul_greengrass.shtml
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Hello, new "member" Drew Shaw writing in from British Columbia. I don't know the format, but want to help with the list, and the following addition:
Hi Drew! I moved your entry to the Sarah Silverman page! --RayJ
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Hi -- what about Jonathan Edwards, world triple-jump champ and former arch God-botherer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Edwards_(athlete)
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Also, Vic Reeves was interviewed for Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. At the end he showed extreme displeasure at being allowed to take a copy of the bible 'You know where you can stick that' or some such, although I can't find any specific references.
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