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Charles Stross I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.
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Charles Stross I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever – was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.
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Alan Watts Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Alan Alda I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
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Edmond de Goncourt If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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David Hume A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion
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Kurt Vonnegut If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.
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Bill O'Reilly It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist
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Charles Dickens Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.
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Charles Caleb Colton In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
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Charles Caleb Colton The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
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Charles Caleb Colton If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
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Charles Caleb Colton With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
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Charles Dickens The law is an ass, an idiot.
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Charles Dickens Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.
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Charles Dickens But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
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Charles Dickens If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.
atheism three wealth
Charles Caleb Colton The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
atheism divine sovereignty
Charles Spurgeon Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.
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August Bebel We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
atheism movement goes-on
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
atheism affirmation made
Charles Bradlaugh Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.
atheism doe without-god
Charles Bradlaugh Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.
atheism form mere
Charles Bradlaugh A mere society form of Atheism.
atheism gains miserable
Charles Bradlaugh Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?
atheism reign professors
William Shakespeare I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.