Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

by Dan Barker

Canadian physician Dr. Marian Sherman, a prominent atheist from Victoria, B.C., in an article titled “What Makes an Atheist Tick?” in the September 11, 1965, issue of the Toronto Star Weekly, is quoted as saying: “Humanism seeks the fullest development of the human being... Humanists acknowledge no Supreme Being and we approach all life from the point of view of science and reason. Ours is not a coldly clinical view, for we believe that if human beings will but practice love of one another and use their wonderful faculty of speech, we can make a better world, happy for all. But there must be no dogma.”