Quotes About Atheism

Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.

Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist; and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied.

The root of most atheism i not argument but attitude, not itellection but feeling, not the love of truth but the fear of truth.

I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn't any God at all

Big words. But how fragile is Clara's atheism! Like one of those tiny glass doves Hortense keeps in the lounge cabinet – a breath would knock it over.

She was not so swept away that she could not see the high comedy of this spiritual seduction: a Litvinoff daughter, a third-generation atheist, an enemy of all forms of magical thinking, wandering into synagogue one day and finding her inner Jew. But there it was. Something had happened to her, something she could not ignore or deny. And there was a sense in which its unlikelihood, its horrible inconvenience, was precisely what made it so compelling.

I've obviously spent a lot of time thinking about myth and religion. I've also spent time with things like The Skeptical Inquirer magazine, and Carl Sagan's book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark ; but while I was reading them, I was thinking, "Yes, yes, yes; but don't you need to maintain a core of solid, rock-hard belief to be an atheist in this world?" [ Laughter. ] I think what I really like is the idea of belief itself.

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more god and become atheism.

Solo cuando logramos acallar al cristiano ateo que llevamos dentro y buscar a Dios y su reino por sobre las cosas huecas y vacías de este mundo, podemos experimentar la verdadera bendición perdurable.

La preocupación es el resultado de tratar de llevar una carga que jamás tenía como destino nuestra espalda. Si los cristianos ateos tratamos de hacer tal cosa, estamos admitiendo que en realidad no confiamos en Dios.

As Peter Berger has noted, the strategy of apologizing for Christian faith by trying to demonstrate its social utility is always eventually self-liquidating. Sooner of later people realize that a great many of the supposedly practical and secular benefits of the Christian religion can be had more easily without religion...The logic of practical atheism may well be more deeply ingrained in the evangelical tradition than conservatives perhaps have realized.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

I'm agnostic," I told him. "I'd be an atheist, except I believe in hedging my bets.

those who deny the existence of God are suppressing the truth because of their wickedness and rebellion.

It is not clever to be an atheist; it is not clever to rebel against God; it is not clever to mock those who devote themselves to Christian theology; rather, "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?" (Mark 8:36).

The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Psalm 14:1). The

the Vedanta says, a man who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

When Karl Marx was asked what his objective in life was, he said, "To dethrone God and destroy capitalism!

The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'

But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness?