Quotes About Atheism

I hurried forward and entered the church. The interior was huge, cluttered, draughty, a collage of different centuries. It was probably unhappy to have arrived at this one: the twelfth century had provided the arches, the sixteenth the lovely wooden ceiling, the eighteenth the altar – and what had the twenty-first bestowed upon St Michael? Atheism and indifference.

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.

o ateísmo é a menos racional de todas as concepções possíveis do mundo. p.179

So when the atheist bus comes by, and tells you that there's probably no God so you should stop worrying and enjoy your life, the slogan is not just bitterly inappropriate in mood. What it means, if it's true, is that anyone who isn't enjoying themselves is entirely on their own.

I don't believe in ghosts or ESP or elves... or God. But I am spiritual in the sense that I get a lump in my throat when I listen to Vaughan Williams.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

Nothing was real about life under communism. The state's control was total. What led Popkov to seek fellowship with Christians was reading The Stranger, the celebrated 1942 novel by Albert Camus, the French existentialist. Though Camus was an atheist, the novel compelled the young Russian living in an atheist state to look for Christ.

You have a very special personal relationship with God, Mathieu. You're the kind of atheist who can't forgive God for NOT existing, and who gives the impression that in your eyes the only scientific discovery truly worthy of man's genious would be the discovery of God.

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.

If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.

L]et it be remembered that atheism … is the secret of religion … ; religion … in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Já o ateísmo é uma forma de humildade. É considerar-se um animal, como de fato somos, e deixar-nos o encargo de nos tornar humanos.

I was sent a copy of Richard Dawkins' amusing book, The God Delusion, by an anonymous donor, so I feel I should at least try to review it. This isn't easy. I got as far as page 36 before chucking it across the room in disgust. I was in the Boston Tea Party on Park Street in Bristol. I warned the other customers to get out of my line of fire first.

El analfabetismo y la pobreza son discapacidades, como también lo son la imbecilidad, la obesidad y la apatía. La fe es una discapacidad en la medida en que restringe el interés personal; el ateísmo es una discapacidad, puesto que es una coraza contra la esperanza. Incluso el poder puede considerarse una discapacidad por el aislamiento al que condena a quienes lo ejercen.

Faith is a disability insofar as it constrains you from self-interest; atheism is a disability inasmuch as it shields you from hope. One might see power as a disability, too, for the isolation in which it imprisons those who wield it.

Atheism is nothing more than noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

Atheism is nothing more than bosses reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.    While

She believed in nothing, if it wasn't for her skepticism she would be an athiest.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an athiest.

Well, the atheists are against any sort of religion, be it Christianity – " but then Dylan interjected, "Well, Christ is no religion. We're not talking about religion…. Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life." Dylan