Quotes about atheist
atheist doe propose
Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved. Roger Scruton
atheist intelligent design
Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution , intelligent design, God , and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands of comments, I have never named my beliefs , although readers have freely informed me that I am an atheist , and agnostic , or at the very least a secular humanist which I am. Roger Ebert
atheist night would-be
I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer. Roger Ebert
atheist house church
After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us." Sarah Vowell
atheist sacrifice men
When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? W. Somerset Maugham
atheist believe common-sense
I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense. W. Somerset Maugham
atheist civilization keys
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. Robert Anton Wilson
atheist cutting random-chance
I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it…. Robert Anton Wilson
atheist dark people
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. Richard Lederer
atheist mean knowing
Let's drop the whole 'atheist evangelism' thing and call out bullshit questions like 'what does atheism have to offer?' for just what they are: Bullshit. I mean, what does knowing that the Earth goes around the Sun have to offer? Who cares? It just is. Rebecca Watson
atheist years stories
Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story. Rob Bell
atheist ideas missing
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it. Rob Bell
atheist believe dont-believe
Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either. Rob Bell
atheist bullshit people
The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit. Richard Pryor
atheist thinking arrogant
No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has The Truth. To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant. Tom Lehrer
atheist clever today
Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever. Steve Crocker
atheist atheism hide-and-seek
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself. Sri Aurobindo
atheist shadow hide-and-seek
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it. Sri Aurobindo
atheist gita vedas
When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion. Sri Aurobindo
atheist atheism phases
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism. Rupert Sheldrake
atheist imagination mind
It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.