Quotes About Atheism

But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability and giving them some sort of false confidence. The different is that while Catholicism has an abundance of intellectual underpinnings to support its arguments, anti-Catholicism and atheist have few if any.

ORGON. Brother, your language smacks of atheism; And I suspect your soul's a little tainted Therewith. I've preached to you a score of times That you'll draw down some judgment on your head.

Atheism too has become a religion, just as their brothers and sisters who are theists by hearts and minds.

Atheists enjoy weekends, even though they are more religious, rather than scientific.

My friend (s), I'm not an atheist like you. In fact, I'm a theist. Meaning, I do believe in One Living God!

To the atheist, the world is filled with madness and crazy people who believe in superstitions that cannot even prove to be true.

Too much poverty, like living in the same conditions as Job, could lead many to become atheists.

Si vous voulez forger un athée irréductible assommez-le de principes religieux inflexibles : ça marche à tout les coups.

I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

Philosopher John Gray, though himself an atheist, writes that "when atheism becomes a political project, the invariable result is an ersatz religion that can only be maintained by tyrannical means" 64—by secret police and death camps.

Not believing in God is a far more arduous affair than is generally imagined," Eagleton concludes.

Writing in the context of racial prejudice—as one who marched with Martin Luther King Jr in the 1960s—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel argued that prejudice is atheism, "a treacherous denial of the existence of God." In other words, prejudice negates any pretence of trying to believe in a God who claims to have made all people in His image. Heschel continues, "Any god who is mine but not yours, any god concerned with me but not with you, is an idol.

Racism might be the most common atheism among Christians today.

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.

An atheist is respectable as long as he does not teach that the dignity of man is the basis of ethics and that love for humanity is the true religion.

Authentic atheism is a blank page; Gnostic atheism hides a text written in invisible ink. The Ãœbermensch is the recourse of a nonconformist atheism. Nietzsche invents a human consolation for the death of God; Gnostic atheism, on the other hand, proclaims the divinity of man.

Der authentische Atheismus hat für die menschliche Intelligenz den gleichen Stellenwert wie die Unendlichkeit für die Vorstellungskraft.

Authentic atheism is as important to human intelligence as infinity is to imagination.

Der Demokrat erstarrt, wenn er von ungewöhnlichen Koalition Kenntnis erhält, die ihn bedroht, wenn er entdeckt, daß die Klassik des Sophokles sich mit Romantik Kierkgaards verbündet hat, um ihn zu verurteilen. Wenn er bei diesen Unterfangen den bischöflichen Pomp Bosseut mit den dionysischen Atheismus Nietzsches paktieren sieht.

Are you asleep?' he asked. 'Are you religious?' I had to put the question. 'Yes,' he replied proudly. 'I'm an atheist.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

As followers of Jesus, we must not duck the enormity of a simple but shattering fact: with relatively few exceptions, such as some branches of Buddhism, almost all the most militantly secularist societies in history have been the product of Christian societies. The church is a leading spawning ground for atheists.

The most devout among us become atheistic in this connection; we do not believe God, we enthrone common sense and tack the name of God on to it. We do lean to our own understanding, instead of trusting God with all our hearts.