Atheism Quotes - Page 79

They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of superior wickedness and inferior mentality, could have but one general result throughout Christendom.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

It is through the perversion of the religious element in woman, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding this life with all its high duties in abeyance to that which is to come, that she and the children she has trained have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and superstition.

Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

He who does not believe in hell is in the greatest danger of landing there.

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.

In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.

The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.

The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.