Atheism Quotes - Page 53

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.

It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.

The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from another, or makes it prudent or desirable for him to select one and embrace it.

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.

Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error.

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.

Without doubt you are not sane.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

I think it's a bit excessive.

The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.

How many prison years in the years since Christ!

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.