To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“ 'I thought you were an atheist,' Sjurd commented to hide the clench of his gut. He couldn't be stuck here while… — Amy Rae Durreson Copy Share Image
Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two:… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
An atheist chaplain would be the perfect vehicle for convincing wounded warriors that they should end their lives because there's nothing in… — Gordon Klingenschmitt Copy Share Image
“God has made the world in such a way that even the atheist need faith to do anything in life and especially… — Robin Sacredfire 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
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
“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
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
“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
I'd like to think that I'm not just making the point that I'm an atheist over and over, but that I explore… — David Cross Copy Share Image
“Shallan’s mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
“People consider Islam as the best religion of world; I wonder if best of them is that much worse, I am really… — M.F.Moonzajer Copy Share Image
One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“I am an atheist but I promise whenever there is complete freedom of religion I would worship you as my private and… — M.F.Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven.… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There is no necessity to beware of atheist, beware of that believer who once finds out that god does not exist and… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.” — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
“The surname of an atheist is compound unfortunate plus being, therefore unfortunate-beings, making all atheists unfortunate beings because human beings are created… — S. E. Entsua-Mensah Copy Share Image
You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist […] I find that it… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house?… — John Webster Copy Share Image
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. — Maynard James Keenan 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 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/i/a50/bill-bass-77319_atheism_all-my-life-i-d-been-a-believing-christi_222687.jpg)
![“Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.” quote by John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aeb/john-dewey-545_atheist_men-have-never-fully-used-their-powers-t_2081598.png)
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