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Theists and atheists are equally religious.
As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.
I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.
