If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
I'd like to see atheism represented not only as an intelligent choice, but common sense. It shouldn't take years of study to… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in… — Benjamin De Casseres Copy Share Image
Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship.… — Tarsem Singh Copy Share Image
Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth.… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
These principles, universally recognized, are at fault when the question of the existence of God is considered; what has been said of… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“I am not an atheist. But the religion that I do advocate is not of the Bible, Vedas, Quran or any other… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
“The atheist would never believe that the spiritual realm exists, unless the spiritual realm decides to scare them with a near-death or… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Some days I feel like I'm an atheist. Most days, I feel like an agnostic. On a very rare day, I feel… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Zora was a woman of principle, an open atheist. At the age of thirteen, a priest had told her that animals had… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I think true atheism is a rare thing in human affairs: Even in the most secularized precincts of Europe, a lot of… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Sociological Review revealed that atheists are the least trusted group in America—less trusted, even,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this… — Frei Betto Copy Share Image
“Fear and confession for the fear of unknown,business mind to fulfill greeds and unsatisfaction, limited knowledge makes the religion” — er.teji Copy Share Image
“You live in a society, that always demands you to have a label to define yourself. Now it's up to you, whether… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice -… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair was murdered. Jon Murray and Robin Murray-O'Hair were also murdered by individuals involved with the atheist organization. — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
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