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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Wed Sep 3, 2014, 01:14 PM Sep 2014

Victor Stenger, atheism’s ‘fifth horseman,’ is dead

Kimberly Winston

(RNS) The atheist community is mourning the death of Victor Stenger, a prominent physicist who championed rooting out religion from the public sphere and was best-known for quipping: “Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.”

Stenger, who also graced a very short list of authors who hit the New York Times best-seller list writing about atheism, died Aug. 25 in Hawaii. He was 79.

Atheist, skeptic and science blogs, in the U.S. and in England, were filled with tributes and remembrances over the long holiday weekend.

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/09/03/84814/