Atheist Quote by Daniel Everett Download Open image “I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.” — Daniel Everett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheist Christian Christian missionary Christianity Inspirational Missionary
It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You know, for a long time I became almost atheist. I believed in nothing. And it was tough for me to believe in anything… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being… — Moby Copy Share Image
It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian. — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely we could… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
“There is a certain dignity in going through life without the promise of Heaven or the threat of Hell.” — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion be? It should produce peaceful, strong, secure people who… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
I've learned so much from the Pirahas over the years. But this is perhaps my favorite lesson. Sure, life is hard and there is… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like… — J.D. Salinger 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 rejecting God’s… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents. — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine. — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
I am like all other atheists only in that I do not believe there are any gods. Beyond that, I may differ dramatically in… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image