Quotes about atheist
atheist years atheism
Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.' Kirk Cameron
atheist done foolish
I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.
atheist philosophical people
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Karl Marx
atheist mind fetish
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
atheist powerful demand
Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation? Josh Charles
atheist dying scared
I'm not scared of dying, because I'm an atheist. I won't even know I'm dead. You know why? Because I'll be fùckin' dead. Jim Jefferies
atheist mind atheism
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. Jiddu Krishnamurti
atheist war men
All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.
atheist school crowds
What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch. Gillian Anderson
atheist clergymen consider dead god love others
That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The clergymen consider me as such- be it so; but I love, and how could I feel love if I did not live, and if others did not live, and then, if we live, t Vincent Van Gogh
atheist happen helps hitting push question run stuff time tough truth ways
That helps me get through any tough time in my life. There's so many ways you can run away from it, but when push comes to shove, the truth is going to look you right in the face. You can be an atheist and all that, but when stuff is hitting the fan, it makes you question some things. Things don't just happen. They happen for a reason.
atheist thinking blessing
I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness. Geraldine Brooks
atheist kindness men
What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness? Herman Melville
atheist support priests
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster. Henry David Thoreau
atheist men realistic
A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought. H. L. Mencken
atheist mistake way
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.
atheist honesty thinking
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
atheist law atheism
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
atheist sex men
Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them. Jerry Falwell
atheist men quality
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. Jean Rostand
atheist people catholic
I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic. Jim Gaffigan
atheist adults agnostic
I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.
atheist behaviour way
Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.
atheist believe character
The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why I can't believe in any orthodox religion: I cannot believe in my own soul. No, I am a chemical compound, conditioned by environment and education. My "character" is simply a repertoire of acquired tricks, my conversation a repertoire of adaptations and echoes, my "feelings" are dictated by purely physical, external stimuli. Christopher Isherwood
atheist said
As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like. Christopher Hitchens
atheist thinking may
The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.
atheist wall racism
We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'.
atheist order holocaust
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.
atheist jobs ocean
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?
atheist atheism cognitive-dissonance
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.
atheist writing hands
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have seen miracles or to have had encounters with messiahs and prophets and redeemers who were, like them, mere humans. And this is also why we will never submit to dictation from those who display a fanatical belief in certainty and revelation.
atheist atheism doe
If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
atheist should-have years
There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was the organ of blasphemy which I used for so many years. I've used many other organs to blaspheme as well if it comes to that.