Atheism Quote by Ibn Warraq Download Open image “Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism” — Ibn Warraq ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Doomed Monotheism Turns
Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission". The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will… — Timothy Leary Copy Share
Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a… — Isaac Bonewits Copy Share Image
“To abandon the idea of separation from and submission to God has always been feared as a threat to morals, but there is absolutely… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Monotheists have tended to be far more fanatical and missionary than polytheists. A religion that recognises the legitimacy of other faiths implies either that… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“...atheism is not a conscious act of turning away from all gods. It is simply the final destination for those who think. ...you will… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image
I have always felt that many Christians, deeply sincere Christians, support the idea of separation of State and Church and the secularist in that… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, equality before the law, freedom of conscience, thought, and expression, human rights, and liberal democracy- quite an achievement, surely, for any civilization- - remain the best, and perhaps the only, means for all people, no matter… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share
Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share
Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as… — Ibn Warraq 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 rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee 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 his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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