“Humankind cannot bear very much reality. -TS Elliot, quoted by Groothuis” — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“Faith allows an evasion of those difficulties which the atheist confronts honestly. And to crown all, the believer derives a sense of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Anybody hear the great news, today? Jimmy Swaggart under investigation! Oh Ja-eezus! One day every one of those cocksuckers will get caught!… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world - to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not. — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.” — George Everett Macdonald Copy Share Image
