Atheism Quotes - Page 44

In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.

Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

I am a daylight atheist.

The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.

One of the advantages of atheism is takes so little of your time.

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into the magic aura are not dealt with rationally but by a specific type of pseudo-reasoning. Absurdities and contradictions are made acceptable by specious rationalizations.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.