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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.
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.
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.
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.
atheism facts opinion
Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational
atheism hobbies belief
Atheism is a belief system”, is like saying “not going skiing, is a hobby.
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.
favors farming farmers
How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors. Jane Smiley
favors greener solutions
I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions. Chiwetel Ejiofor
favors immigration restaurants
I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English. Calvin Trillin
favors fortune audacious
Fortune favors the audacious. Desiderius Erasmus
favors fortune owed pleasures remember sweetest taste
May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed Anonymous Toast
favors discrimination bases
I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Edward Kennedy
favors want ifs
If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor. Benjamin Franklin
favors facts resentment
You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.
favors being-a-woman young
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young. Baltasar Gracian