Atheism Quotes - Page 35

I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!

I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought.

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

There are parodies of non-existent things.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.

Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

All religion is slavery.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

Who knows most, doubts most.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their right. What I fear is that this minority may seem to be larger than it truly is. What is strange is that there are still people who believe the world is not a globe.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief in God.

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.