Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Madalyn Murray O'Hair (April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) was an American atheist and activist.
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- Your petitioners are Atheists and they define their lifestyle as follows. An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth- for all men together to enjoy.
- MURRAY v. CURLETT, Petition for Relief, 1959
- An Atheist knows that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist knows that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanquished, war eliminated.
- MURRAY v. CURLETT, Petition for Relief, 1959
- One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times … he is beyond human forgiveness.
- Ungodly: The Passions, Torments, and Murder of Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, on her son William becoming a Christian.
- But people ... don't even know what atheism is. It's not a negation of anything. You don't have to negate what no one can prove exists. No, atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems. I'm thrilled to feel that I can rely on myself totally and absolutely; that my children are being brought up so that when they meet a problem they can't cop out by foisting it off on God. Madalyn Murray's going to solve her own problems, and nobody's going to intervene. It's about time the world got up off its knees and looked at itself in the mirror and said: "Well, we are men. Let's start acting like it."
- Interview in Playboy[specific citation needed]
- Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.
- American Atheists charter
[edit] About Madlyn Murray O'Hair
- My mother was an evil person … Not for removing prayer from America's schools … No … She was just evil. She stole huge amounts of money. She misused the trust of people. She cheated children out of their parents' inheritance. She cheated on her taxes and even stole from her own organizations.
- William J. Murray (1999), "My mother, brother and daughter were murdered"
