Quotes about atheist
atheist reality atheism
Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God. Tom Stoppard
atheist lying men
It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal. Tim LaHaye
atheist atheism logical
We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence. Sam Harris
atheist atheism belief
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
atheist believe mean
The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some really extraordinary taboos and confusions. What I want to argue tonight is that how we talk about belief- how we fail to criticize or criticize the beliefs of others, has more importance to us personally, more consequence to us personally and to civilization than perhaps anything else that is in our power to influence.
atheist believe needs
Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.
atheist book way
If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we are not sure whether or not God wrote some of our books, then we need only count the days to Armageddon-because God has given us far many more reasons to kill one another than to turn the other cheek.
atheist people cartoon
Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot?
atheist guarantees-that atheism
The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.
atheist rain believe
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.
atheist ignorance wings
Theology is ignorance with wings.
atheist xenophobia practice
God is great”). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God’s existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia over Muslim immigration or the practice of veiling. The New Atheists became the new Islamophobes, their invectives against Muslims resembling the rowdy, uneducated ramblings of backwoods racists rather than appraisals based on intellect, rationality and reason. “Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death,
atheist believe thinking
If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.
atheist talking religion
The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.
atheist believe names
When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do.
atheist offending population
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
atheist reality fantasy
The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
atheist atheism belief
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
atheist war two
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.
atheist believe sea
While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane.
atheist stars war
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything -- anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.
atheist accepting believer
We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings. Roy Hattersley
atheist people would-be
I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept. Ron Reagan
atheist church minutes
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
atheist self ideas
Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking. Sean M. Carroll
atheist mean reality
Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all. Leonard Peikoff
atheist believe laughing
I wouldn't call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God. So I do not laugh at people who believe in God. But I do not necessarily believe in God - nor deny that there could be one. Lee Kuan Yew
atheist thinking agnostic
I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks. Neil Peart
atheist wish use
Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish? Marcus Aurelius
atheist men religion
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.
atheist existence
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing Thomas Aquinas
atheist may suspicion
It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god Thom Yorke
atheist giving discworld
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. Terry Pratchett