10 Celebrity Atheists

Hello, fellow Christian.

Here I have a list of self professed God haters who happen to be well known within the culture.  I offer it for two reasons:

- for you to pray for their eternal souls.

- for you to understand and be aware that all communication that comes out of these people will be tainted with a God-less worldview.

Here is the list:

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Lance Armstrong

This interview excerpt is from page 8 of TIME magazine dated Sept 29, 2003, “10 Questions for Lance Armstrong,”

Interviewer: “For a miracle man, you’re not very religious.”

Armstrong: “I don’t have anything against organized religion per se. We all need something in our lives. I personally just have not accepted that belief. But I’m one of the few.”

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Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster is on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, September 7, 2007. In both the written version (page 41) and the online version of EW, Jodie says the following:

“Are you religious?”

“No, I’m an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don’t believe in God. We celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids. They love it, and when they say, Are we Jewish? or Are we Catholic? I say, Well, I’m not, but you can choose when you’re 18. But isn’t this fun that we do seders and the Advent calendar?“

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Bill Gates

Gates was profiled in a January 13, 1996 TIME magazine cover story. Here are some excerpts compiled by the Drudge Report:

“Isn’t there something special, perhaps even divine, about the human soul?” interviewer Walter Isaacson asks Gates. “His face suddenly becomes expressionless,” writes Isaacson, “his squeaky voice turns toneless, and he folds his arms across his belly and vigorously rocks back and forth in a mannerism that has become so mimicked at MICROSOFT that a meeting there can resemble a round table of ecstatic rabbis.”

“I don’t have any evidence on that,” answers Gates. “I don’t have any evidence of that.”
He later states, “Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”
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Sir Ian McKellen

He doesn’t know God, but does love a good congregation. (“I was brought up a Christian, low church, and I like the community of churchgoing. That’s rather been replaced for me by the community of people I work with. I like a sense of family, of people working together. But I’m an atheist. So God, if She exists, isn’t really a part of my life.”) — from a January 19, 1996 profile by Tim Appelo found in Mr. Showbiz.

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Keanu Reeves

Jack Nicholson

Angelina Jolie

In the September 6, 2000 edition of The Onion A.V. Club titled “Is There A God?”, celebrities were asked the question. Jolie was among those asked.

The Onion: Is there a God?

Angelina Jolie: Hmm… For some people. I hope so, for them. For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There doesn’t need to be a God for me. There’s something in people that’s spiritual, that’s godlike. I don’t feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don’t really know if it’s better to just not believe in anything, either.

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Billy Joel

Here’s an excerpt from an interview/biography published in the 1982 book Rock Stars…

Q: You’re an atheist, I know. When did you settle on that philosophical position?

A: Well, I wasn’t raised Catholic, but I used to go to Mass with my friends, and I viewed the whole business as a lot of very enthralling hocus-pocus. There’s a guy hanging upon the wall in the church, nailed to a cross and dripping blood, and everybody’s blaming themselves for that man’s torment, but I said to myself, “Forget it. I had no hand in that evil. I have no original sin. There’s no blood of any sacred martyr an my hands. I pass on all of this.”

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Woody Allen

In his autobiographical movie, Stardust Memories, Allen’s character is called an atheist. He responds “To you, I’m an atheist. To God, I’m the loyal opposition.”

Some more quotes:

“Not only is God dead, but just try to find a plumber on weekends.”

“I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles / Just like having an ear for music or something. It would just never occur to such a person for a second that the world isn’t about something.”

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Bruce Willis

Willis comments on religion in an interview in the July 1998 issue of George magazine.

“Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms,” he says. “They were all very important when we didn’t know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened,” he continues. “Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally!” he says incredulously. “I choose not to believe that’s the way. And that’s what makes America cool, you know?”

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Pray for these souls… there is always a chance… for anyone.

   JESUS IS LORD
Rev. Daniel Gabriel