Atheist Quotes
The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.
If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.
I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.
Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god. But these were people who in their times were criticized as infidels.
Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.
If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.
Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.
Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.
Most Christians are afraid that people will think for themselves; most atheists are afraid that they won’t.
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.
As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.
And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic.
If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.
Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?
It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.
There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.
If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.
I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.
I don't think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don't think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.
God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.
If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.
It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.
