Atheist Quotes - Page 20

• 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.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Mean, Long

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• We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

  Sam Harris

  Atheism, Logical, Claims

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• Why should we believe in a god, that doesnt believe in us?

  Marilyn Manson

  Believe, Should, Believe In Us

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• For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality

  Sanal Edamaruku

  Reality, Illusion, Accepting

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• The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'

  Pat Roberts

  Christian, Believe, Simple

  "Pat Robertson attacks Hindus as 'demonic'" by Valli J. Rajan, www.sullivan-county.com. July 1995.

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• I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations mental illness clouds our judgment.

  Adam Hamilton

  Struggle, Clouds, Evil

  "No, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fashion, Catholic, Orthodoxy

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, April 19, 1930.

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• The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.

  Criss Jami

  Father, Teenager, Reflection

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.78, Criss Jami

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• Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

  Al Gore

  Country, Religious, People

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• I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Reading, Atheism, Reading The Bible

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• Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Brave, Atheism, Fundamentals

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• "Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since it has often been used to blacken anyone with the slightest doubt about the teachings of religion.

  Jim Herrick

  Teaching, Doubt, Atheism

  Jim Herrick (1985). “Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists”

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• "Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

  Jim Herrick

  Mean, Atheism, Knowledge Of God

  Jim Herrick (1985). “Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists”

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• Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Atheism, Pills, Chewing

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• The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.

  S. T. Joshi

  Meaningful, Religious, Hands

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• Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

  Paul Krassner

  Believe, Intimate Relationships, Atheism

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• The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Atheism, Spirit, Positive Atheism

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• Actually, I don't like Atheists very much - at least most of them ~ because they are not motivated to move into the community and attempt to correct the injustices which are everywhere apparent against them.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Moving, Community, Atheism

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• I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Prayer, Believe, Atheism

  "One Brave Woman vs. Religious Fundamentalism: An Interview With Taslima Nasrin". Free Inquiry interview, www.secularhumanism.org. December 1, 1998.

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• Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved. When atheists become the majority in this country, I don't think the theists are going to be glad to have "one nation under no God" inserted in the Pledge of Allegiance.

  Michael Newdow

  Country, Thinking, Government

  "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

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• 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.

  Gary Sloan

  School, Numbers, Long

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• When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose, first, that the theist has acquired knowledge of a being that, by his own admission, cannot possibly be known; or, second, he may assume that the theist simply does not know what he is talking about.

  George H. Smith

  Two, Talking, Atheism

  George H. Smith (2000). “Why Atheism?”, Pyr Books

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• Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

  Barbara Smoker

  Atheism, Alternatives, Answers

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• That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.

  Rodney Stark

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

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• There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a belief in God as a guide. Atheists do not care whether others believe as they do. They do ask, however, for the right to believe as they wish.

  Gordon Stein

  Believe, Numbers, People

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