Quotes about atheist
atheist believe should
Why should we believe in a god, that doesnt believe in us? Marilyn Manson
atheist hate
One hates what one fears.
atheist believe thinking
If i believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God - and i believe that there is one. i think God would appreciate what i say, because i can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots
atheist slave
I`m not a slave to a god that doesn`t exist.
atheist atheism christianity
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock. Christopher Hitchens
atheist islamic support
Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.
atheist thinking
I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.
atheist godly men
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds?
atheist science ideas
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.
atheist men atheism
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.
atheist regret reflection
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.
atheist children believe
A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina who were dumped by their parents for inherited deformities that were attributed to sins in a previous 'life.
atheist men laughing
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man made and what you have to show [is] there internal inconsistencies and absurdities. One of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority... it is an indispensable thing people can call it blasphemy if they like, but if they call it that they have to assume there is something to be blasphemed - some divine work, well I don't accept the premise.
atheist religion atheism
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
atheist ideas mind
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.
atheist children world
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?
atheist vintage doubt
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
atheist pride secret
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.
atheist science religion
Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
atheist believe animal
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated
atheist silence stupidity
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
atheist agnostic
I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic. Christopher Durang
atheist people scare
Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness. Fran Lebowitz
atheist government giving
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. George Washington
atheist men insightful
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. George Santayana
atheist catholic religion
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. George Orwell
atheist doe ifs
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible. Fyodor Dostoevsky
atheist believe atheism
It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!
atheist existentialism ifs
Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.
atheist world easier
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
atheist children doubt
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
atheist believe men
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.
atheist fear reality
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. Friedrich Nietzsche