Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Amerikaanse atheïste en activiste, oprichtster van American Atheists, en bekend door het proces Murray vs. Curlett, dat resulteerde in de uitspraak van het Supreme Court, waarmee een eind kwam aan de praktijk van het verplichte dagelijks gebed in Amerikaanse openbare scholen.

It is often said, mainly by the "no-contests", that although there is no positive evidence for the existence of God, nor is there evidence against his existence. So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

~ Richard Dawkins