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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?
Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.
People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.
What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.
To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.
He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.
Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.
I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.
There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.
Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.
Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.
Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.
One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.