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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?
My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.
A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.
We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.
Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.
God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.
The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.
What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.
Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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.
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.
Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.
Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?
What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
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.
For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?
I love how people walk around with crucifixes, skullcaps, pointy hats, funny beards and then say 'you should keep your atheism to yourself.'
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.
Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.
I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.