Biographie
Madalyn Murray-O'Hair
- Date de naissance
- Date de décès29 septembre 1995 · San Antonio, Texas, États-Unis (homicide)
- Nom de naissanceMadalyn Mays
- Surnoms
- Mad Madalyn
- The Pope of Atheism
- Taille1,68 m
- Madalyn Murray-O'Hair est née le 13 avril 1919 à Pennsylvanie, États-Unis. Elle était mariée à Richard O'Hair et John Henry Roths. Elle est morte le 29 septembre 1995 au Texas, États-Unis.
- ConjointsRichard O'Hair(18 octobre 1965 - 14 mars 1978) (son décès)John Henry Roths(9 octobre 1941 - 1945) (divorcé)
- Her sarcastic sense of humour and brutal honesty
- Often appeared on The Phil Donahue Show
- In later years, often wore glasses
- Her works frequently focused on separation of church and state as well as feminism
- Her laugh
- In 2013, the first public atheist monument was erected with quotes from O'Hair, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
- Was a militant feminist.
- Became estranged from her son, William J. Murray III after he became a Christian in 1980.
- The main perpetrator of her murder, David Roland Waters died on January 27, 2003 at the age of 55.
- Founder of American Atheists which remains one of the most distinguishable atheist activist groups in the USA to this day.
- An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
- Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
- Somebody, Somewhere, Love Me! [Repetitious plea of a lonely atheist in her unpublished diaries.]
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