Atheism Quotes - Page 81

I am without religious feeling.

Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done this, they would then willingly conciliate the good opinion of their fellow-men. But the truly little reverse the thing. The primary object with them is to secure the applause of their fellow-men; and having effected this, the approbation of God and their own conscience may follow on as they can.

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.

Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal torment is the probable fate of the great majority of the human family?

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed.

Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this.

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.