Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of… — William James Copy Share Image
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our… — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened by our being dirty.… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Much of the contemporary American atheistic movement seems to be treating atheism like a new kind of religion. … It's just that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Open theists affirm the same openness of the future that religious believers assume when they pray and almost all humans assume when… — Philip Clayton Copy Share Image
I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
This is not to deny that there are versions of theism that do conflict with evolutionary biology. Young Earth Creationism is an… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism - these are people that don't believe. There's theism - these… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
According to theism, if a universe is to have any probability of existing, this probability is dependent upon God's beliefs, desires and… — Quentin Smith Copy Share Image
