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atheists god hear smile
When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion. Vincent Bugliosi
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.
heaven soul desire
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
heaven may ifs
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going. Bette Davis
heaven glimpse courageous
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven. Anthony Storr
heaven way pity
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse. Bill Vaughan
heaven going-to-heaven christianity
Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.
heaven way hardest
Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.
heaven
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens. Bertrand Russell
heaven looks speak
[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
heaven logic study
All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.
religion
My goal is never to make fun of religion. Chuck Palahniuk
religion
Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off. Gore Vidal
religion atheism answers
If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
religion trying succeed
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
religion generations world
A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.
religion steps why-not
Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.
religion atheism kind
[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.
religion bitterness christianity
... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness. Bernadette Devlin
religion rewards duty
My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.