"Christians have given atheists less and less in……" — Alasdair MacIntyre

"Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve"

— Alasdair MacIntyre

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18 Quotes by Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair MacIntyre has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if…
Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more…
Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North…
At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest…
I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what…
The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators,…
Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?
Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine…
We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict,
There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because…

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode… — Aristotle
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the… — Douglas Adams
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind… — John Adams
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism… — Joseph Addison
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can… — Jack Black
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a… — Tony Blair

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