Atheism Quotes
All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?
The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).
The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.
What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.
Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression.
At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.
The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.
Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.
We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.
Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.
Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.
Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.
Only so you can appeal to your God and pray Him to support and bless your courage, your work, your perseverance, your strength, your resolution, and with all these your claim on life.
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.
Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.
What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?
The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons.
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.