The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Speaking to a 'non-theist', 'How do you what you don't believe in if you have never read the Bible?'".” — Belle from Kentucky Copy Share Image
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved. When atheists become… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine… — Emma Goldman 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
I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I have hitherto followed the lines marked out by the Theist in his attempt to prove that there exists a mind behind… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“The atheist generally says (though the bold Dr. Victor Stenger goes a bit further) that the existence of a deity cannot be… — Christopher Hitchens 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 believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
So how do theists respond to arguments like this? [The Argument from Evil] They say there is a reason for evil, but… — Quentin Smith Copy Share Image
“The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving 'a-theism' the negative result. It did not, in the absurd terms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
In affirming God to be supreme in all things, the classical theist describes him in a number of ways. He is perfect,… — Alexander Waugh Copy Share Image
Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual. — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved. — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Atheist's will seek a logical explanation when something is not understood where as Theist's will call it God's will.” — Christopher Paul Flateau Copy Share Image
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
![“So how do theists respond to arguments like this? [The Argument from Evil] They say there is a reason for evil, but it is a mystery. Well, let me tell you this: I'm actually one hundred feet tall even though I only appear to be six feet tall. You ask me for proof of this. I have a simple answer…” quote by Quentin Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/635/quentin-smith-54821_accepting_so-how-do-theists-respond-to-arguments-l_1707372.jpg)
