Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates (1975-) is a black American journalist and writer.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “I’m a big believer in chaos” - Vox

TNC: "From an atheist perspective, life is precious — whenever someone dies, it’s the end of their personal universe. The idea we should hand-wave away the deaths that I believe will come as a result of this election — I just can’t do it."

Atheist Bodies - Image Journal

For Coates, a self-proclaimed atheist, the body is the first and the last. “I have no God to hold me up,” he writes. “And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything.” To lose the body is to lose consciousness, the soul, everything, forever. For him, there is no second chance, no reincarnation, no forgiveness, no resurrection.

Ta-Nehisi Coates and the End of Black Faith | HuffPost

Dr. Rogers, Ta-Nehisi Coates tells us in his new book that he wanted to believe in an arc of justice; he wanted to believe in God. But his atheism was born from being brutalized as a child and, more critically, from the fact that no one was there to comfort him when he needed it most after the brutalization.