Atheism Quotes - Page 9

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

Someone tells us that God loves us as a father loves his children. We are reassured. But then something awful happens. Some qualification is made.... We are reassured again. But then perhaps we ask: what is this assurance of God's (appropriately qualified) love worth, what is this apparent guarantee really a guarantee against? Just what would have to happen not merely (morally and wrongly) to tempt but also (logically and rightly) to entitle us to say "God does not love us" or even "God does not exist"?

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being - der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity - a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition of theism.

The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we are responsible in part for our own destiny. Human beings can achieve this good life, but it is by the cultivation of the virtues of intelligence and courage, not faith and obedience, that we will most likely be able to do so.

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion, it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.