Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe the earth is stationary, but you have to realize I was an atheist for seven years. I just believed everything… — Mike Hughes Copy Share Image
“Admiral Pendragon sat down again as abruptly as he had risen; but he sat quite still, and when he spoke again it… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
“Living organisms were not independently created, but have descended and diversified over time from common ancestors. And thus, no other biological theory… — Tommy Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls… — Gora Copy Share Image
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering,… — Bill Blass Copy Share Image
I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I implore the atheist not to judge the religious and I implore the religious to not find fault with the atheist. Be… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by… — Marshall Fritz Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“There's a kind of science defense lobby or evolution defense lobby in particular . They are mostly atheist, but they are desperately… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I am so sorry to hear of Asher 's passing. I will miss his scientific insight and advice, but even more his… — Charles Henry Bennett Copy Share Image
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making… — Karlheinz Deschner Copy Share Image
For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If you look up 'atheism' in the dictionary, you will probably find it defined as the belief that there is no God.… — Michael Martin Copy Share Image
The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image