Quotes about atheist
atheist
Every one starts out being an atheist. Andy Rooney
atheist thinking people
I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.
atheist belief born
Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.
atheist believe astrology
I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
atheist practice people
Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don't push my atheism on anybody else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion.
atheist believe thinking
I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.
atheist colors connected iran religious rest shades
When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot. So Iran is no different than any other country. I mean, they are connected with the rest of the world. Mohamed ElBaradei
atheist believe came faith frustrated god parents science since students studies viewed
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
atheist became beyond chemistry graduate life physics quantum seemed
I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that. Francis Collins
atheists believe call god though
I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not. Ed Asner
atheists attention exhausted folks religion religious screaming
I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do. Bjork
atheists christmas display good militant religion understand visible
Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists. Bill O'Reilly
atheist believe god produce
American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America. Stanley Hauerwas
atheist offering interesting
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way. Stephen Jay Gould
atheist years ice
We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists
atheist praying
There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole. During an ambush, you're praying for everything and anything you can think of.
atheist wind religion
I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot). Kurt Vonnegut
atheist atheism foxholes
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
atheist thinking people
People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.
atheist creating limits
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it. Percy Bysshe Shelley
atheist glasses waiting
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you. Werner Heisenberg
atheist rejection challenges
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery. Bede Griffiths
atheist claims inference
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. C. S. Lewis
atheist real believe
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
atheist people opiates
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
atheist reading men
In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
atheist reading men
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
atheist men different
I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us. Carl Reiner
atheist pseudoscience difficult
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. Carl Sagan
atheist agnostic there-is-no-god
An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.
atheist healing two
Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems to me. First, no one doubts that science actually works, whatever mistaken and fraudulent claim may from time to time be offered. But whether there are any miraculous cures from faith-healing, beyond the body's own ability to cure itself, is very much at issue. Secondly, the expose' of fraud and error in science is made almost exclusively by science. But the exposure of fraud and error in faith-healing is almost never done by other faith-healers.
atheist israel years
(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park was shown in Israel, it was condemned by some Orthodox rabbis because it accepted evolution and because it taught that dinosaurs lived a hundred million years ago-when, as is plainly stated at every Rosh Hashonhan and every Jewish wedding ceremony, the Universe is less than 6,000 years old.
atheist mean propositions
It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.