Atheist Quotes - Page 22

• Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers.

  Pat Buchanan

  Religion, Criminals, Minorities

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• The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

  Dan Barker

  Christian, Religion, Notion

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wind, Religion, Church

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• An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

  Laurence Sterne

  Ignorance, Superstitions, Skepticism

  Laurence Sterne (1790). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.146

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• Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

  Miles Franklin

  Heart, Atheism, Bitter

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.81, The Floating Press

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• Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Daughter, Mother, Jesus

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.

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• There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.

  Cornelius Van Til

  Christian, Taken, Reality

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• I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Believe, Feminist, Dogma

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• Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Our World, Records, Care

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• I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic for an atheist.

  Bertrand Russell

  Memories, Regret, Lakes

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.346, Routledge

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• In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Love, Nun, Courtesans

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• Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief in that god is unreasonable. That's the only proposition that any atheist of any kind has to demonstrate in order to win the argument. Because anything beyond that... is just having fun.

  Scott Clifton

  Fun, Winning, Order

  "God, Atheism and Evidence: A Response to Veritas48". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. January 11, 2010.

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• If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god.

  Greta Christina

  Believe, Thinking, Zeus

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• In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. The chance's of theism's truth being to my mind so microscopically small, I would be a pedant and a hypocrite to call myself anything else.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Hypocrite, Mind, Would Be

  H. P. Lovecraft (1999). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories”, p.11, Penguin

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• Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the habit of conceiving of God simply as some very large object or agency within the universe, or perhaps alongside the universe, a being among other beings, who differs from all other beings in magnitude, power, and duration, but not ontologically, and who is related to the world more or less as a craftsman is related to an artifact.

  David Bentley Hart

  Errors, Agency, Encounters

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• Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by atheists and agnostics than each other.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Religious, People, Tolerance

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• An atheist is as religious as a theist.

  Kedar Joshi

  Religious, Atheism, Theist

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• Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Atheism, Gods Will, Breasts

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• I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an atheist, I still believe strongly in the power of free will (despite the mysticism in my prose). I don't believe in the notion of a pre-ordained destiny, and I think because of the sudden death of my father at sixteen I learnt then that it is essential to live life to the fullest as it could be snatched away at any second.

  Tobsha Learner

  Father, Philosophy, Believe

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• I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

  Natalie Angier

  Powerful, Believe, Atheism

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• According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.

  Pete Seeger

  Eye, Thinking, Listening

  "Pete Seeger's Session". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. August 2006.

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• That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

  Aubrey Menen

  Thinking, Religion, Society

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• My dog is an atheist: he no longer believes in me.

  Francois Cavanna

  Dog, Believe, Atheism

  "L'almanach-agenda de Cavanna 1985". Book by François Cavanna, Paris: Belfond, 1985.

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• Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge to improve life, and a sense of awe before the mysteries of existence. However, by the standards of conventional religion, Dewey was an atheist.

  James A. Haught

  Religious, Compassion, People

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• (...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existencial channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence. Moreover, just as churches and other ritualistic meeting places serve a social function, so art events generate a sense of community around shared interests

  Sarah Thornton

  Art, Community, Church

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