Atheism Quote by Ulrich Beck

Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation…

— George Pattison

Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions,…

— Huston Smith

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency…

— Jacques Maritain

The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is…

— Rodney Stark

There is at least one more atheism left; it is by its very nature a belligerent form that wants to spread far and wide…

— Gerard Verschuuren

I think true atheism is a rare thing in human affairs: Even in the most secularized precincts of Europe, a lot of nominal nonbelievers…

— Ross Douthat

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

— Chapman Cohen

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

— Ulrich Beck

Belief and non-belief has waxed and waned for centuries. This time atheism is here to stay.

— Kevin Smith

“Based on the short thesis presented, I believe the intellectual roots of modern atheism find themselves quite comfortably in an absolutely naturalized epistemology which…

— Bō Jinn

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that…

— Peter L. Berger

Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in…

— Robert Andrews Millikan