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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.

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

Salman Rushdie
Atheist, Religion, Fundamentalism

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Salman Rushdie
Reality, Ideas, Religion

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

Salman Rushdie
Atheist, Ideas, Religion
Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Salman Rushdie
Religion, Sound, One Sentence

To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion'. The many Muslims I respect would be horrified by the idea that they belong to their faith purely by virtue of birth, and that a person who freely chose not to be a Muslim could therefore be put to death.

Salman Rushdie
Ideas, Religion, Islam

To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.

Salman Rushdie
Police, Religion, Dissing
Salman Rushdie (2008). “Step Across This Line”, p.81, Random House

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