Atheism Quotes - Page 19

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the shibboleth of salvation! Unless you have a personal relationship with Jesus, buster, one day you will be boiling in Hell. Sheesh! Talk about the fury of a personal savior scorned!

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by which it is prov'd, that the literal Sense does in reality authorize the stirring up Persecutions against the Cause of Truth, and that an erroneous Conscience has the same Rights as an enlighten'd Conscience.

Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is no more than an admission of ignorance dressed deceitfully as an explanation.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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.

I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents... Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey Burbidge, of the University of California at San Diego, complains that his fellow astronomers are rushing off to join 'the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang.'

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.