Atheism Quotes - Page 46

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.

Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest questions, any signs of the workings of an interested God, in a final theory. I think that we will not.

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

Gayness is a non-issue.

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel. "Tell no one" was often his command.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.

"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment.

The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.