Atheism Quotes - Page 36

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to identify with Someone above the ground, Someone who seemed to feel the same, Someone prepared to lead the way, with Someone who would die for me.

The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.

Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.

The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim, that is, to bring about a state of affairs which makes reforms without violence possible.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

"Respecting" means concerning or with reference to. But it also means with respect~ that is "reverence," "good-will," "regard" to. Taking into account this richer meaning, the Establishment Clause, in banning laws that concern religion, especially prohibits those that pay homage to religion.

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Do what you say you will do.

Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.