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Image of Shelton Smith
Take a nation, tell the people there is no God, tell them there is nothing beyond the grave, and they will lose heart, lose their morale. They will become such a shiftless, lazy, apathetic, lethargic people that you won't be able to get half of them to work. Many will not be motivated by anything.
- Shelton Smith
Collection: Atheist
Image of Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
They had...finished their lives before their death - which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.
- Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
Collection: Atheist
Image of Arthur Hertzberg
When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.
- Arthur Hertzberg
Collection: Atheist
Image of Chris Patten
It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.
- Chris Patten
Collection: Atheist
Image of Jose Antonio Carrillo
Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.
- Jose Antonio Carrillo
Collection: Atheist
Image of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
It's better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Collection: Atheist
Image of Rocco Buttiglione
The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all
- Rocco Buttiglione
Collection: Atheist
Image of Chapman Cohen
If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.
- Chapman Cohen
Collection: Atheist
Image of Chapman Cohen
Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.
- Chapman Cohen
Collection: Atheist
Image of Paul Copan
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s existence.
- Paul Copan
Collection: Atheist
Image of Josh Charles
Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?
- Josh Charles
Collection: Atheist
Image of Martin Buber
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
- Martin Buber
Collection: Atheist
Image of Adam Carolla
I am not agnostic. I am atheist. I don’t think there is no God; I know there’s no God. I know there’s no God the same way I know many other laws in our universe. I know there’s no God and I know most of the world knows that as well. They just won’t admit it because there’s another thing they know. They know they’re going to die and it freaks them out. So most people don’t have the courage to admit there’s no God and they know it. They feel it. They try to suppress it. And if you bring it up they get angry because it freaks them out.
- Adam Carolla
Collection: Atheist
Image of Arnulf Øverland
For a "monotheistic" religion it should be sufficient with three gods.
- Arnulf Øverland
Collection: Atheist
Image of Arnulf Øverland
What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns the non-believers, all those who think differently, to an eternal torment in hell? - If that Church absolutely must talk about love, then it should do so very quietly.
- Arnulf Øverland
Collection: Atheist
Image of Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw
God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that it is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces that thoughtful person to face the fact that he is accountable to such a God.
- Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw
Collection: Atheist
Image of Pierre Charron
All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.
- Pierre Charron
Collection: Atheist
Image of Herbert Eugene Bolton
Confession without repentance is just bragging.
- Herbert Eugene Bolton
Collection: Atheist
Image of W. D. Snodgrass
I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say.
- W. D. Snodgrass
Collection: Atheist
Image of Frank Schaeffer
There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.
- Frank Schaeffer
Collection: Atheist
Image of Sean Faircloth
You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.
- Sean Faircloth
Collection: Atheist
Image of Karlheinz Deschner
Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?
- Karlheinz Deschner
Collection: Atheist
Image of Hugh Miller
The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.
- Hugh Miller
Collection: Atheist
Image of Adam Pascal
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.
- Adam Pascal
Collection: Atheist
Image of William Lane Craig
Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can no longer hold that position because modern evidence that the universe started with the Big Bang. So they can't legitimately object when I make the same claim about God - he is eternal and he is uncaused.
- William Lane Craig
Collection: Atheist
Image of Nicolaus Zinzendorf
Only atheists attempt to comprehend god with their mind.
- Nicolaus Zinzendorf
Collection: Atheist
Image of John C. Wright
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature.
- John C. Wright
Collection: Atheist
Image of John C. Wright
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.
- John C. Wright
Collection: Atheist
Image of Jaroslav Pelikan
An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unanswerable. For the atheist, the question has been answered, and in the negative.
- Jaroslav Pelikan
Collection: Atheist
Image of Christopher Isham
Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this has led to scientific ideas...being advanced with a tenacity which so exceeds their intrinsic worth that one can only suspect the operation of psychological forces lying very much deeper than the usual academic desire of a theorist to support his or her theory.
- Christopher Isham
Collection: Atheist
Image of Antony Flew
If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism.
- Antony Flew
Collection: Atheist
Image of Ken Ham
For all their raving, ranting, and name-calling, these atheists will stand before God one day-and they will exist for eternity, though sadly they will be separated from God unless they repent and receive the free gift of salvation.
- Ken Ham
Collection: Atheist
Image of Gad Saad
Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.
- Gad Saad
Collection: Atheist
Image of Heinrich Himmler
I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called in their language Waralda, the ancient one, the one who is mightier than we are.
- Heinrich Himmler
Collection: Atheist
Image of Luis Bunuel
Thank God, I am still an atheist.
- Luis Bunuel
Collection: Atheist
Image of Pierre-Simon Laplace
Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
Collection: Atheist
Image of Rabia Basri
Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.
- Rabia Basri
Collection: Atheist
Image of Jean Meslier
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced that if you follow closely the natural light of your spirit, you will see ... that all the religions in the world are only human inventions and that everything your religion teaches you and forces you to believe as supernatural and divine is at heart only error, lie, illusion and trickery.
- Jean Meslier
Collection: Atheist
Image of Greg Koukl
Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional crutch, wishful thinking? The ax cuts both ways. Perhaps atheists are rejecting God because they've had a bad relationship with their father. Instead of inventing God, have atheists invented non-God? Have they invented atheism to escape some of the frightening implications of God's existence? Think about it.
- Greg Koukl
Collection: Atheist
Image of Richard Lederer
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
- Richard Lederer
Collection: Atheist
Image of Brian Williams
Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and that's exactly where we're all going one day, maybe soon, whether we like it or not.
- Brian Williams
Collection: Atheist
Image of Arthur Lynch
A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.
- Arthur Lynch
Collection: Atheist
Image of Christian B. Anfinsen
I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place.
- Christian B. Anfinsen
Collection: Atheist
Image of Christian B. Anfinsen
I think only an idiot can be an atheist.
- Christian B. Anfinsen
Collection: Atheist
Image of Julian Huxley
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable, has lost its explanatory value and is becoming an intellectual and moral burden to our thought. It no longer convinces or comforts, and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.
- Julian Huxley
Collection: Atheist
Image of Dinesh D'Souza
And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of a Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic? Who can dispute that they did their bloody deeds by claiming to be establishing a "new man" and a religion-free utopia? These were mass murders performed with atheism as a central part of their ideological inspiration, they were not mass murders done by people who simply happened to be atheist.
- Dinesh D'Souza
Collection: Atheist
Image of Dinesh D'Souza
Look at Satan's reason for rebelling against God. It's not that he doesn't recognize that God is greater than he is. He does. It's just that he doesn't want to play by anybody else's rules. This idea that it is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven is Satan's motto, and it turns out that this is also the motto of contemporary atheists such as Christopher Hitchens.
- Dinesh D'Souza
Collection: Atheist
Image of Dane Cook
What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.
- Dane Cook
Collection: Atheist