It's fantastic to believe, because they get so many benefits. I get mad at the atheist community when they put down believers… — Julia Sweeney Copy Share Image
His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Atheists often denounce Christianity as harsh and negative. But in reality it offers a much more positive view of the human person… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
Use their tactics if you feel strongly enough. Make a nuisance of yourself. Make an official complaint. Take it to a tribunal.… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
“Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been… — Gratis P. Spencer Copy Share Image
When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently,… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“Mama, you don’t understand. It’s all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don’t acept. It’s not important.… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
“All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
Religion is a universal security blanket for a lot of people, especially children. It gives them a sense of security, albeit, I… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
In short, I didn't become a Christian because God promised I would have an even happier life than I had as an… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
“How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
I am not agnostic. I am atheist. I don’t think there is no God; I know there’s no God. I know there’s… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
“I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Once Steve Fuller said that there is this idea that your responsibility as an intellectual is just to speak the truth as… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family have made… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there’s a supreme being? There’s no proof of it. There’s… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
![“His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but we are helped to understand him when we learn that he asserted, and to the end of his life maintained, his belief in an Almighty Creator and Upholder of the…” quote by Andrew Dickson White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c1/andrew-dickson-white-24254_all-time_his-turgot-s-first-important-literary-an_1733504.jpg)
![“All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die, too. As I thought more about it in the bleak days and weeks that followed, I decided the Bible had gotten it exactly backward. Maybe God hadn't…” quote by Bill Bass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a50/bill-bass-77319_atheism_all-my-life-i-d-been-a-believing-christi_222687.jpg)
![“It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have a black man in the White House but if either of them had said they were atheists neither of them would have had a hope in hell.” quote by Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c9/julian-barnes-522_atheist_it-is-a-bizarre-thought-that-in-this-u-s_2435314.jpg)
