Salman Rushdie Quotes about Atheism

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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

Salman Rushdie

Thinking, Religion, Atheism

"Who is Salman Rushdie?" by Firas Al-Atraqchi, www.mediamonitors.net. November 23, 2001.

God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.

Salman Rushdie

Years, Religion, Atheism

"In God We Trust". Essay by Salman Rushdie, 1985.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Salman Rushdie

Atheism, Woody, Positive Atheism

Independent, February 18, 1989.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

Salman Rushdie

People, Atheism, Society