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Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.Collection: Atheist
I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.Collection: Atheist
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.Collection: Atheist
I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.Collection: Atheist
I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.Collection: Atheist
There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.Collection: Atheist
I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?"Collection: Atheist
And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.Collection: Atheist
I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.Collection: Atheist
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.Collection: Atheist
In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.Collection: Atheist
If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.Collection: Atheist
Thank you God for making me an atheist.Collection: Atheist
An armed society is a polite society.Collection: Atheist
The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.Collection: Atheist
The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.Collection: Atheist
Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.Collection: Atheist
Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot?Collection: Atheist
If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.Collection: Atheist
If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.Collection: Atheist
Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?Collection: Atheist
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.Collection: Atheist
There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.Collection: Atheist
We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'.Collection: Atheist
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.Collection: Atheist
When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do.Collection: Atheist
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.Collection: Atheist
What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist.Collection: Atheist
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.Collection: Atheist
How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!Collection: Atheist
We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.Collection: Atheist
The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.Collection: Atheist
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.Collection: Atheist
A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina who were dumped by their parents for inherited deformities that were attributed to sins in a previous 'life.Collection: Atheist
Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.Collection: Atheist
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?Collection: Atheist
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.Collection: Atheist
I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMICollection: Atheist
I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.Collection: Atheist
We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out.Collection: Atheist
We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.Collection: Atheist
The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some really extraordinary taboos and confusions. What I want to argue tonight is that how we talk about belief- how we fail to criticize or criticize the beliefs of others, has more importance to us personally, more consequence to us personally and to civilization than perhaps anything else that is in our power to influence.Collection: Atheist
Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.Collection: Atheist
If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we are not sure whether or not God wrote some of our books, then we need only count the days to Armageddon-because God has given us far many more reasons to kill one another than to turn the other cheek.Collection: Atheist
If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.Collection: Atheist
What does an atheist scream when they come?Collection: Atheist
I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.Collection: Atheist
In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!Collection: Atheist
No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.Collection: Atheist