Atheism Quotes - Page 23

Revolutions never go backward.

It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no laws of physics were violated in bringing the universe into existence. The laws of physics themselves are shown to correspond to what one would expect if the universe appeared from nothing. There is something rather than nothing because something is more stable.

While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do not know the exact nature of every component of the universe, the basic principles of physics seem to apply out to the farthest horizon visible to us today.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

Do I believe? God only knows.

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God smaller than he must be assumed. When he stated that these laws hold, then they hold, and he wouldn't make exceptions. This is too human an idea. Humans do such things, but not God.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.

During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was a chance that it could save them, or others, from the eternal torments of hell. Thus, in the name of the religion of love, hundreds of thousands of people were not merely killed but atrociously tortured in ways that made the gas chambers of Beslen seem humane.

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.