Quotes about atheism
atheism doe morality
Morality does not depend on religion. John Ruskin
atheism usual no-hope
Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words. Mary Todd Lincoln
atheism hobbies stamps
Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby. Penn Jillette
atheism needs absence
Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion. Penn Jillette
atheism going-away needs
Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing. Penn Jillette
atheism superstitions belief
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. Marlene Dietrich
atheism
Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life Maynard James Keenan
atheism virtue
Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue. Marilyn Manson
atheism esther rebellious
I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther. Margaret Sanger
atheism may
It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable. John Stuart Mill
atheism world belief
The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. John Stuart Mill
atheism development enabling
Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong. John Stuart Mill
atheism littles preference
To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage. James Randi
atheism might taught
Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more. Henry Bolingbroke
atheism malice preaching
The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching. John Adams
atheism littles
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him. Louis Pasteur
atheism positive-atheism infidel
I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am. Luther Burbank
atheism use retorts
What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion. Luther Burbank
atheism savior positive-atheism
Science is the only savior. Luther Burbank
atheism wildfires
Atheism is spreading like wildfire. Ray Comfort
atheism consuming cycles
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete. Raoul Vaneigem
atheism doctrine too-much
I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too slender, and is too much divided into other sects to maintain any one preacher well. I must therefore be contented to be an Unitarian by myself, although I know there are many around me who would become so, if once they could hear the questions fairly stated. Thomas Jefferson
atheism argument purity
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. Thomas Jefferson
atheism citizens tests
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason. Thomas Jefferson
atheism demand christianity
Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect. Soren Kierkegaard
atheism dedicated superiority
Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority. Stephen Colbert
atheism doctrine philosopher
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher. Thomas B. Macaulay
atheism facts ends
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact. Thomas Hobbes
atheism world creeps
I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world. Thomas Hobbes
atheism proud weapons
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. Thomas A. Edison
atheism belief realizing
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. Ulrich Beck
atheism young ancestor
Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once. Richard Dawkins
atheism looks different
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory. Richard Dawkins