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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.
Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!
If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.
Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.
One great way to mess with devout Christians and atheists would be if Jesus came back and said, By the way, you know I'm fake, right?
We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.
When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.
Some days I feel like I'm an atheist. Most days, I feel like an agnostic. On a very rare day, I feel like I'm a believer in something.
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.
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.
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.
Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.
I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.
Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.
Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude.
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
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.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.
I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.
I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens.
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.
Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.