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Atheist Tuesday: Famous Lost Words

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Quick test: What do all these famous people, apart from being dead, have in common?

Madalyn Murray O’ Hair (1919-1995)

“I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That’s me. I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.”

O’ Hair was the Founder of American Atheists. (Source here.)

Katherine Hepburn (1907 – 2003)

In an interview in the October 1991 Ladies’ Home Journal that was advertised as her “most candid” ever, Hepburn said:

“I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

“By simple common sense I don’t believe in God, in none.”

–From “Manual of a Perfect Atheist” by Rius,
retrieved from www.atheistempire.com

Voltaire (1694-1778)

(DISCLOSURE: It is reported by many sources that these words were from his lips. Others say he never said these things. You decide.)

“In twenty years Christianity will be no more. My single hand shall destroy the edifice it took twelve apostles to rear.”

His Physician said that Voltaire cried out most desperately [at the end of his life]: “I am abandoned by God and man! I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months’ life. Then I shall go to hell; and you will go with me. O Christ! O Jesus Christ!”

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