Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to
worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or
spiritual-type thing to worship is that pretty much anything else you worship
will eat you alive.
- The
late novelist David Foster Wallace during his commencement
address
at Kenyon College, 2005
I've always said, you know, that I don't respect people who
do not proselytize. I don't respect that at all. If you believe that there's a
heaven and hell, and people could be going to hell or not getting eternal life
or whatever, and you think that, uh, well, it's not really worth telling them
this because it would make it socially awkward-and atheists who think that
people shouldn't proselytize, [saying] "Just leave me alone and keep your
religion to yourself"-uh, how much do you have to hate somebody to not
proselytize them? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that
everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?
- Penn
Jillette, illusionist, comedian, author and outspoken atheist