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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.
if-there-is-a-god hell ifs
If there is a God what the hell is He for? William Faulkner
if-there-is-a-god slave should
If there is a God, there should be no slaves. Robert Green Ingersoll
if-there-is-a-god plans ifs
If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan. Eddie Izzard
if-there-is-a-god negative given
i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence. Ayn Rand
if-there-is-a-god knowing light
Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . . Blaise Pascal
if-there-is-a-god religion living-my-life
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. Albert Camus
if-there-is-a-god needs facts
No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person. Swami Vivekananda
if-there-is-a-god design mind
Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God. Stephen Hawking
if-there-is-a-god matter there-is-no-god
If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters. H. G. Wells
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