Quotes about atheist
atheist humanity age
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind. Sigmund Freud
atheist nice order
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
atheist attitude reality
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.
atheist men atheism
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
atheist odds laughing
All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them. Pierre Charron
atheist father blood
The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone! Pope Francis
atheist writing reason-why
There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass. Ralph Vaughan Williams
atheist self atheism
Even the Atheists ... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something ... which was never made or produced -- and which therefore is the cause of those other things that are made, something ... whose existence must needs be necessary.... Wherefore all the question now is, what is this ... self-existent thing, which is the cause of all other things that are made. Ralph Cudworth
atheist dancing may
Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.
atheist character events
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. James Madison
atheist people church
In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.
atheist america hair
Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Sociological Review revealed that atheists are the least trusted group in America—less trusted, even, than homosexuals. It makes sense at least we trust the homosexuals with our hair. Stephen Colbert
atheist balls agnostic
Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?
atheist balls
Agnostics are just atheists without balls.
atheist home broken
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments. Thomas Pynchon
atheist religion helping
There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument. Thomas Gray
atheist ignorance heart
But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church. Thomas Hobbes
atheist atheism pills
Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
atheist men religion
I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did. Thomas Jefferson
atheist judging atheism
Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist. Thomas Chalmers
atheist believe hypocrite
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face. Thomas Adams
atheist heart air
God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the beating heart of the creator from the universe's perfect birth. Stood in the thin air and the awe, one inhales God, involuntarily acknowledging that we are but fragments of a whole, a higher thing. The mountains remind me of my place, as a servant to truth and wonder. Yes, God is in the mountains. Perhaps the pulpit too and even in the piety of an atheist's sigh. I don't know; but I feel him in the mountains. Russell Brand
atheist order impossible
It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there is no God. But to have infinite knowledge, you would have to be God yourself. It's hard to be God yourself and an atheist at the same time! Ron Carlson
atheist believe men
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. Umberto Eco
atheist numbers europe
The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan. Rick Warren
atheist worry acting
Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.
atheist atheism want
I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
atheist men heaven
An Atheist loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist knows that heaven is something for which we should work now, here on earth, for all men together to enjoy.
atheist cat religion
Organizing atheists is like hurding cats
atheist our-world care
Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.
atheist religion atheism
An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.
atheist prayer men
No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
atheist retreat apathy
The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.