By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life.
John EllisStichwörter: atheism irish atheist physics biography physicist bell-s-theorem j-s-bell john-stuart-bell
I am so sorry to hear of Asher's passing. I will miss his scientific insight and advice, but even more his humor and stubborn integrity. I remember when one of his colleagues complained about Asher's always rejecting his manuscript when they were sent to him to referee. Asher said in effect, 'You should thank me. I am only trying to protect your reputation.' He often pretended to consult me, a fellow atheist, on matters of religious protocol.
{Charles H. Bennett's letter written to the family of Israeli physicist, Asher Peres}
Stichwörter: friend friendship death atheism eulogy sad atheist funeral ibm asher-peres computer-scientist peres
To understand why I jumped from the Mormon wagon train requires an understanding of what Mormons are and how they think. While Mormons have some quaint, quirky and fanatical ideas, they really aren't much different from millions of poor, guilt-ridden souls who, throughout the march of human history, have hitched their hopes to mass movements of one sort or another. Eric Hoffer, in his brilliant treatise, "The True Believer," explains the attraction of joining a cause: "A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following 'by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaninglessness of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated by freeing them from their ineffectual selves--and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole'. "Of all the cults and philosophies that competed in the Graeco-Roman world, Christianity alone developed from its inception a compact organization."
Once I realized this, it wasn't much of a leap out of religion altogether once I flew the Mormon coop. I simply wanted to be free from organizational groupthink. I escaped from the stuffy attic of religion's "pray, pay and obey" mentality into journalism's open laboratory of "who, what, where, when and why.
Stichwörter: atheism atheist indoctrination mormonism cult freethinking mormon brainwashing
Science discovered long ago that carbon is a source of life. The ashes of my faith have prepared the ground for the planting of seeds that have produced new forms of truth, morality and meaning on my own terms, not according to the dogma laid down by religious ruffians or a vengeful God. If, as believers claim, the word "gospel" means good news, then the good news for me is that there is no gospel, other than what I can define for myself, by observation and conscience. As a journalist and free-thinking human being, I have come not to favor and fear religion, but to face and fight it as an impediment to civilized advancement.
Steve BensonStichwörter: fear science truth morality change atheism atheist observation realization
Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not.
George Bernard ShawStichwörter: lies belief lie atheist agnosticism agnostic jehovah
Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.
Larry HannantStichwörter: belief atheism atheist biography doctor communist contempt evangelical mobile-blood-transfusion
I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.
BjörkStichwörter: buddhism belief atheism atheist buddhist
In 1902, Marcellin P. Berthelot, often called the founder of modern organic chemistry, was one of France's most celebrated scientists—if not the world's. He was permanent secretary of the French Academy, having succeeded the giant Louis Pasteur, the renowned microbiologist. Unlike Delage, an agnostic, Berthelot was an atheist—and militantly so.
Robert K. WilcoxStichwörter: science atheism atheist france chemistry militant scientist pasteur berthelot chemist delage louis-pasteur marcellin-berthelot marcellin-p-berthelot organic-chemistry thermochemistry thomsen-berthelot-principle yves-delage
My name is Matt Besser, and I'm an Arkansas Razorback. My father is a Jew from Little Rock, Ark., my mother was a Christian from Harrison, Ark., and somehow I'm an atheist now living in L.A. I am a Razorback living in the Razorback diaspora.
Matt BesserStichwörter: humor atheism funny atheist jew arkansas razorback
I am an atheist.
Hans BetheStichwörter: atheism atheist physics nobel-prize nobel-laureate bomb nuclear nuke stellar-nucleosynthesis
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