Absence Quote by Joseph McCabe

“The absence of theistic belief... { Defining the word 'atheism' }”

— Joseph McCabe

It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it…

— William Kingdon Clifford

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but…

— Emma Goldman

To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for a meaning…

— Victor J. Stenger

“Let us remind ourselves of the terminology. A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who, in addition to his main work of creating the…

— Richard Dawkins

“I sometimes wonder, however, whether in the case of modern atheism and theistic tradition what is at issue is the difference between two entirely…

— David Bentley Hart

Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution.

— William A. Dembski

However, in brief, I think the connecting of 'God' and 'Being' is one of these things for which there seems to be a natural…

— George Pattison

Theism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is probably not…

— John Shelby Spong

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

— Emma Goldman

“In that context, I find theistic evolution, or BioLogos, to be by far the most scientifically consistent and spiritually satisfying of the alternatives. This…

— Francis S. Collins

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

— Alvin Plantinga