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atheist latin america
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics. Carlos Fuentes
atheist men brave
The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense. C. S. Lewis
atheist believe simple
By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none. Charlie Chaplin
atheist believe mean
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world. Charles Dickens
atheist reform british
I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here. Charles Stross
atheist believe waiting
I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever – was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself. Charles Stross
atheist son special
I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?". Ricky Gervais
atheist thank-god
I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist. Ricky Gervais
atheist thinking heaven
Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code. Ricky Gervais
religion christianity know-yourself
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all. C. S. Lewis
religion crime thousand
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. Charles Caleb Colton
religion atheism knees
I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'. Susan B. Anthony
religion
I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go. Tracy Chapman
religion stressed magnificence
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge. Carl Sagan
religion whole department
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
religion church want
We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God. Chief Joseph
religion
Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose. Michel Onfray
religion said wells
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. Kurt Vonnegut
atheism three wealth
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. Charles Caleb Colton
atheism belief claims
Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more. Ricky Gervais
atheism facts opinion
Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational Ricky Gervais
atheism hobbies belief
Atheism is a belief system”, is like saying “not going skiing, is a hobby. Ricky Gervais
atheism doe world
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life. C. Wright Mills
atheism divine sovereignty
Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism. Charles Spurgeon
atheism movement goes-on
The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
atheism affirmation made
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. Charles Bradlaugh
atheism public-opinion court
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion. Charles Bradlaugh