Atheism Quotes - Page 40

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

Death pays all debts.

So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

It was my duty to give them the best show possible. Say you've got a timid little preacher in North Carolina or somewhere. He'll bring in visiting evangelists to keep his church going. We'd come in and hit the crowd up and we were superstars. It's the charisma of the evangelist that the audience believes in and comes to see.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.

Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but the falsifiability of a system is to be taken as a criterion of demarcation... It must be possible for an empirical or scientific system to be refuted by experience.

We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.