Atheism Quotes - Page 55

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.

All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.

Since 1787 the principle of freedom of religion has been attacked but never overthrown. Keeping education in the United States free of sectarian influence has long been one of the primary struggles of believers in freedom of religion.

In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party - democratic or totalitarian - through study and comparison of principles.

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is only a temporary state of Religion, and whilst it lasts will hardly be seen with pleasure at the helm. Even in its coolest state, it has been much oftener a motive to oppression than a restraint from it.

Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

When church and state are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but where they have been confounded together, no tongue nor pen can fully describe the mischiefs that have ensued.

Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be rejected... One sentence ... sums up the dark and deadly pages of Chistian history: "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."

It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, 'Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'

I am high in the sky, and still I do not see the face of god.

Fear first created the gods.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.