Atheism Quotes - Page 15

• Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Thinking, Answers

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". "Playboy" Magazine, October 1965.

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• We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

  Richard Dawkins

  There Is No God, Prove, Improbable

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• Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

  Daniel Dennett

  Believe, People, West

  "How To Save Our Secular America!" by Jack Huberman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2007.

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• Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Negative, Dogma

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• If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Atheist, Ancient, Spread

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• Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence

  George Holyoake

  Superstitions, Reason, Existence

  George Jacob Holyoake (1896). “The Origin and Nature of Secularism: Showing that where Freethought Commonly Ends Secularism Begins”

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• Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different... More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history!

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, America, Religion

  "Toss (some of 'em) to the lions". The Tuscaloosa News, September 15, 1993.

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• If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says, 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday,' you say, 'Fine, I respect that.'

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Party, Hands

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.137, Del Rey

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• It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheist, Men, Illumination

  "Science and religion need a truce" by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2009.

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• Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.

  Chapman Cohen

  Atheist, Cutting, Issues

  "Theism Or Atheism: The Great Alternative" by Chapman Cohen, (Ch. XIII), 1921.

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• All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.

  H. L. Mencken

  Order, Religion, Savages

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.89, Vintage

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• If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  People, Religion, Anti Religious

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• I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

  Dan Barker

  Atheist, Fall, Religion

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• I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job.

  George W. Bush

  Atheist, Jobs, Religion

  "How born-again George became a man on a mission" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

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• Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Pain, Self

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.152, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with "big government" when it served their needs.

  Howard Zinn

  Atheist, Government, Historical

  "From empire to democracy" by Howard Zinn, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2008.

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• I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

  Isaac Newton

  Bible, Fundamentals, Belief

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• I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of civilization, and I would also say this: that the emancipation of the mind from religious superstition is as essential to the progress of civilization as is emancipation from physical slavery.

  Culbert Olson

  Religious, Civilization, Mind

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• The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

  John Adams

  Atheist, Believe, Fate

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811”, p.479, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Powerful, Thoughtful

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• Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Believe, Scary

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  Isaac Asimov

  Dream, Religious, Atheist

  "Like Rolling Uphill: Realizing the Honesty of Atheism". Book by Dianna Narciso, 2004.

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• It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

  Mary Astell

  Heart, Seats

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.130, Broadview Press

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• I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Mind, Legends

  Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

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• All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

  Ulrich Beck

  Belief, Realizing, Sociology

  "Risky business". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

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