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The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'
Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.
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.
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.
They had...finished their lives before their death - which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.
We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.
The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
As communist atheists allowed no place for Jesus in their hearts, I decided I'd leave not the smallest place for satan in mine.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...
Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.
Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe
I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.
You never hear in the news, "200 killed today when Atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the Agnostic stronghold in the north."
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.
For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.
... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.
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.
I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist.
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
If you believe in God, that's a belief. If you are an atheist, it's a belief too, because you cannot prove that God does not exist.
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.