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atheists bad both except offending people religion seems starting struggling
Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious. Patton Oswalt
atheists change crisis death hoping realize start time
There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. Peter Steele
atheists currents faith
I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people. Victor LaValle
atheists books characters faith mock motives people question written
So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith. I'm past all that. Michel Faber
atheists few finds god katrina nobody tsunami wake
Nobody finds God in the wake of destruction, ... Very few atheists will look at Katrina or a tsunami and think, 'Oh my, there's a God.' David Silverman
atheists children religion remain
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. Ernestine Rose
atheists believers deny eliminate heads likewise opponents people religious seek ways
If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds. Tariq Ramadan
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
atheists theory
If you ask most atheists if the theory of evolution has anything to do with a belief, however, they will tell you that it doesn't. It's not something that has to be believed. It is a 'fact.' Ray Comfort
children knowledge enemy
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend. Charles Caleb Colton
children gambling parent
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
children believe streets
The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them Charles Dickens
children taken ideas
That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay
children pride men
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
children character eye
He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.
children character pride
"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."
children boys two
I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
religion crime thousand
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
religion whole department
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
religion ordinary deities
Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity. Edward Gibbon
religion atheism might
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
religion said wells
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. Kurt Vonnegut
religion baths doe
They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good. Billy Sunday
religion battle faces
No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle. Bertrand Russell
religion christianity know-yourself
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all. C. S. Lewis
religion atheism humanist
The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.' Charles M. Schulz
remain stay
As much I can stay away from people, I remain happy. Cyrus Broacha
remain slightly
All other things being equal, we should remain in that 100,000 range, or slightly above. Guy Tauer
remain rooted troubling
Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis. John Prendergast
remains saying
They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen, George Davis
remain situations
They're in situations where they remain on our list, but that's not for the public.
remain runway safety top
a recognition that runway safety should remain a top priority.
remain team together
The team that Noel put together is going to remain together. The investigation should not be impacted.
remain return shall village
Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation. Charles de Gaulle
remain single
Terminals remain the single most important part of any proposition in Japan.