10 More Celebrity Atheists

This post is a sequel to this site’s all time number one post: “10 Celebrity Atheists”. It is right here: http://christianwarriorpoet.com/2008/11/11/10-celebrity-athiests/

Please consider these God-haters in your prayers, and understand that everything which proceeds out of them is tainted with a God-less world view…

Here is the list:

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 Kevin Bacon

 “I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don’t believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a God given right. Otherwise it’s the end of our species.”

Wendy Ide interviewing Bacon, ‘The Outsider Wants In’, The Times (London),  December 2005, Features, Pg. 20

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Howard Stern

During his April 12, 1995 E! network show, Stern said:

“Here’s what happens when you die–you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.”

Camille Paglia interviewed Stern in the “Advocate”:

QUESTION: “How do you feel about religion and politics?”

STERN: “I’m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don’t think there’s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.”

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Ray Romano

The Actors Studio, June 19, 2005

The host (James Lipton) asked:

“If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?”

Romano:

“See you were wrong, I do exist.”

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John Malkovich

He was interviewed by Martha Lavey for a WTTW Chicago Public television program entitled “Artbeat Chicago” concerning his thoughts on Sigmund Freud:

“I also particularly like him because he was an atheist, and I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don’t believe something I can’t have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it’s funny — people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH…”

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Bruce Lee

When asked by journalist Alex Ben Block in the summer of 1972 what his religious affiliation was, Lee answered:

‘None whatsoever.’

Block then pressed him further, asking him if he then believed in God:

‘To be perfectly frank, I really do not.’

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Joaquin Phoenix

Nylon Guys magazine, Winter 2008:

“I don’t believe in god. I don’t believe in an afterlife. I don’t believe in soul. I don’t believe in anything. I think it’s totally right for people to have their own beliefs if it makes them happy, but to me it’s a pretty preposterous idea.”

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Kathy Griffin

 On her website:

 ‘My parents sent me to Catholic school, which only made me the vehement militant atheist that I am today”

 “I’m sick to death of Jesus. I feel that Jesus and Paris Hilton are both overexposed. I’ve seen enough of both of them. And I think I’m getting more atheist because of the way the country is getting more into Bible- thumping.”

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Katharine Hepburn

Interview in the October 1991 Ladies’ Home Journal:

“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.”

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Adam Carolla

From Penn Jillette’s (a famous Atheist) 09-Mar-2006 radio show:

Penn: My wife informed me that you are also an out-of-the-closet atheist, is that right?

Adam: Yes.

P: Yeah, which is fabulous. In the 1880s the three highest paid speakers in the United States of America were atheists.

A: Really?

P: It was Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Huxley and Mark Twain.

A: Well we can all enjoy them in hell when we see them there. (laughter)

P: In the past 40 years or so atheists have not be doing as well. And now you are the big LA DJ. Have you ever been religious?

A: No. [...] If you were not born into that culture, it seems like the most outlandish thing in the world. Obviously, you could take any Christian and have them born into the fundamentalist Hasidim (Jews), and they’d be walking around with the beard and the whole getup. So obviously, if you weren’t indoctrinated into that early on, then it makes no sense [to you]. I also [am] very insulted when people say “Well without religion what’s to stop people?” Somehow we don’t know it’s intrinsically wrong to kill, or to cheat, or to do whatever other things it says in the Bible.

P: It’s also frightening because you have people that look you in the eye and say “If it weren’t for religion I’d be killing and raping everybody.” And you respond “it’s not me. Perhaps you should be locked-up for saying that.”

A: I would rather have a police department built into them rather than have one around them in the form of a church or bible or whatever [to which] they can repent. If you are an atheist and have a set of values and moral codes like we do, you can’t do anything wrong because your viscera won’t let you. It’s within. It’s impossible. And I also say this to the a-holes who make these accusations: how many people on death row are atheists? They all love Jesus and they all put a shiv into a Korean liquor store owner because they love Jesus that much.

[ Penn points out that a 1997 study shows that atheists comprise 0.2% of the prison population.]

A: I used to work with born-again gang-bangers installing closets in Burbank. These were amongst the scariest people I’ve ever met in my life. A guy thumping a bible, asking for traveling mercy and speaking in tongues with a teardrop tattoo. This is a frightening guy. People are scared to die, and the second somebody figured out somebody died and got frightened about it they had to concoct a fairy tale. It amazes me that intelligent people buy into [it.]

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Janeane Garofalo

From an interview in the August 1995 edition of Showbiz:

“She admits to having lost God. (‘He just seems very man-made to me. There are so many theories, and not everyone can be right. It’s human nature to need a religious crutch, and I don’t begrudge anyone that. I just don’t need one.’)”

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

   JESUS IS LORD

Rev. Daniel Gabriel