Atheism Quotes - Page 47

Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes - and that's because I am passionate about the truth... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans.

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

Even the Atheists... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something... which was never made or produced - and which therefore is the cause of those other things that are made, something... whose existence must needs be necessary... Wherefore all the question now is, what is this... self-existent thing, which is the cause of all other things that are made.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has been accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for mankind.

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers.