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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society. Religion is the private affair of an individual...be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion. When I'm speaking, I'm speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.Collection: Atheist
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.Collection: Atheist
It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, 'Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'Collection: Atheist
The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.Collection: Atheist
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument - their intellect - which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.Collection: Atheist
We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.Collection: Atheist
Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being... We attack not a person but a belief, not a binge but an idea, not a fact but a fancy.Collection: Atheist
Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.Collection: Atheist
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts of infidel and atheist, have all been for this purpose.Collection: Atheist
There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.Collection: Atheist
The Golden Age of Secularism has passed.Collection: Atheist
There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.Collection: Atheist
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.Collection: Atheist
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains.Collection: Atheist
I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.Collection: Atheist
To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.Collection: Atheist
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.Collection: Atheist
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.Collection: Atheist
What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back to nature, to reality, to reason. He is a thinker who, having reflected on the nature of matter, its energy, properties and ways of acting, has no need of idealized powers or imaginary intelligences to explain the phenomena of the universe and the operations of nature.Collection: Atheist
All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.Collection: Atheist
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.Collection: Atheist
Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.Collection: Atheist
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.Collection: Atheist
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on to fury; if he has activity, it makes him a madman, who is frequently as cruel to himself, as he is dangerous and incommodious to others: if, on the contrary, he be phlegmatic or of a slothful habit, he becomes melancholy and is useless to society.Collection: Atheist
Who needs Satan when you have a God like this?Collection: Atheist
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.Collection: Atheist
If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the laws of probability maintain that my very existence is miraculous. But then after however many decades, less than a hundred years, they disburse and I cease to be. So while they're all congregated and coordinated to make me, then-and I speak her on behalf of all those trillions of atoms-I should really make the most of things.Collection: Atheist
I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.Collection: Atheist
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when pressed, the atheist will often attempt to hide his lack of conviction in his own beliefs behind some poorly formulated utilitarianism, or argue that he acts out of altruistic self-interest. But this is only post-facto rationalization, not reason or rational behavior.Collection: Atheist
Communism is what happens when atheism meets bureaucracy.Collection: Atheist
When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose, first, that the theist has acquired knowledge of a being that, by his own admission, cannot possibly be known; or, second, he may assume that the theist simply does not know what he is talking about.Collection: Atheist
God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong instruments are being used for the job.Collection: Atheist
The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.Collection: Atheist
A comprehended god is no god.Collection: Atheist
If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.Collection: Atheist
According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God. Yet it is clear that the unbelief which he so bitterly deplored was not an intellectual persuasion of God's non-existence. Those whom he rebuked for their lack of faith were not men who denied God with the top of their minds, but men who, while apparently incapable of doubting him with the top of their minds, lived as though he did not exist.Collection: Atheist
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories and laws do not bring matter/energy into existence. The view that they nevertheless somehow have the capacity seems a rather desperate refuge...from the alternative possibility...Trying to avoid the clear evidence for the existence of a divine intelligence behind nature, atheist scientists are forced to ascribe creative powers to less and less credible candidates like mass/energy and the laws of nature.Collection: Atheist
Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism.Collection: Atheist
I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists].Collection: Atheist
I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.Collection: Atheist
If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.Collection: Atheist
Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?Collection: Atheist
For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept realityCollection: Atheist
Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.Collection: Atheist
Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.Collection: Atheist
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.Collection: Atheist
Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.Collection: Atheist
But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.Collection: Atheist
Without God, life is everything.Collection: Atheist