Atheism Quotes - Page 32

Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -­- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn’t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn’t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.

It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Atheism is spreading like wildfire.

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian... There is no lost Golden Age to which American Christians may return.

In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.

The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.