Theism Quotes

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To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is… — Paul Kurtz
Atheism is the last word of theism — Heinrich Heine
Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence — George Holyoake
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; It appears to… — Charles Darwin
Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this… — Christopher Isham
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism. — Richard Dawkins
Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and… — William A. Dembski
If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist â€” he… — Chapman Cohen
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a… — Phillip E. Johnson
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of… — Arthur Peacocke
When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
The opposite of theism is not atheism, itâ€™s idolatry — Peter Kreeft
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism. — Karl Rahner
Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism… — Kenny Smith
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach… — Criss Jami
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its… — Emma Goldman

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