Atheism Quotes - Page 51

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots of anger in his cheeks. His whole body sagged. Before our very eyes, he became a beaten man.

Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.

Progress is a comfortable disease.

The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles.

Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.