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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
God, Atheist, Christian Inspirational
"Where All Roads Lead" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Believe, Doctors

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Religion, Atheism

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Optimism, Miracle

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gratitude, Atheist, Worst Moments

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Atheism, Negative

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christian, Atheist, Taste
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

There is no bigot like the atheist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Bigots

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Atheism, Argument

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Men, Logic

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Men, Sacred

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Manage

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Atheism, Not Interested

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Believe, Men

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheist, Atheism, Doe

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fashion, Atheist, Catholic
"The Illustrated London News" Magazine, April 19, 1930.

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