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atheist criterion success
It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right Robert Lewis
atheist became hated seemed time
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick. Julia Sweeney
atheist drama struggle
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama. Richard P. Feynman
atheist philosophy atheism
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. Richard K. Morgan
atheist understanding religion
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. Richard Dawkins
atheist powerful islands
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?
atheist atheism bother
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
atheist reading men
I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
atheist thinking self
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.
views may mass
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. Robert Collier
views people trying
When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view. Rob Zombie
views arms sometimes
Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath. Richard Paul Evans
views common-sense religion
[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.
views special kind
We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.
views different definitions
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term. Richard Whately
views your-side people
We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good? Richelle Mead
views toes novelists
Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes. Truman Capote
views people black
I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts. Trisha Goddard
religions standard wants
He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin. Matt Stone
religion atheism cosmos
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
religion firsts needs
Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted. William James
religion needs heavenly
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired. William Cowper
religion unhappy dangerous
Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy. Robert Southey
religion atheism firsts
(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment. Sandra Day O'Connor
religion gone disunity
Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity. Neale Donald Walsch
religion world neurosis
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. Marcel Proust
religion easier dies
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. Jorge Luis Borges