Atheist Quotes - Page 30

• I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's no God! There might be!

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Mom, Religious, Dad

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• You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

  Dolly Parton

  Cramming, Deathbed

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• I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt.

  Ricky Gervais

  Hurt, People, Coats

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• Evolution has primarily been an attack on religion by militant atheists who wrap themselves in the mantle of science in an effort to refute all religious claims concerning a creator - an effort that has also often attempted to suppress all scientific criticisms of Darwin's work.

  Rodney Stark

  Religious, Effort, Criticism

  Rodney Stark (2015). “For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery”, p.176, Princeton University Press

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• The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

  Howard Thompson

  Humanity, Superstitions, Culture

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• We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.

  Roy Hattersley

  Accepting, Believer, Humans

  "Faith does breed charity" by Roy Hattersley, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2005.

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• Few things are more important at this time in history than for religious people to listen to the New Atheists as if these unbelievers were speaking with God's voice, because they are! The word "God" used to be identified with reality - indeed, ultimate reality. In all cultures and at all times, the divine was no mere person, but was a personification of reality.

  Michael Dowd

  Religious, Reality, Voice

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• I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

  Ben Stein

  Country, Ideas, America

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How can you be a vegetarian atheist and own a gun? Well, that's who I am.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Gun, Who I Am, Vegetarian

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• Actually I'm pretty adamant about, you know, the whole God thing and it seems that skeptics are by and large atheists or something approaching that, which I strongly identify with. So it turned out to be a good thing and I have become enthusiastically part of it.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Good Things, Skeptic, Adamant

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• I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

  Margot Kidder

  Book, Reading, Including

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• I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti), AIDS (fund-raiser) because I don't want to be forever spouting, diluting the impact of addressing my most urgent concern - legal and social equality for gay people worldwide.

  Ian Mckellen

  Gay, Impact, Punishment

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• I am an atheist. There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for adopting the agnostic moniker? If "atheist" means someone who does not believe in God, then an atheist is what I am. But I detest all such labels. Call me what you like - humanist, secular humanist, agnostic, nonbeliever, nontheist, freethinker, heretic, or even bright. I prefer skeptic.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Mean, Doe

  "Why I Am An Atheist" by Michael Shermer, michaelshermer.com. June 23, 2005.

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• There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Eye, Passion, Tears

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• I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Believe, Believe In God

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, May, Spirit

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• Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Christian, Buddhist, Strong

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• What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.

  Gillian Anderson

  School, Crowds, Faults

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• Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God gets confused one day? Not all religions claim the direct authority of God speaking to their leader. You know, I'm an atheist, but I'm a Puritan atheist.

  Dave Foley

  Confused, Leader, Mind

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• There's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy away from full-fledged Christian.

  Adam Carolla

  Christian, Cancer, Agnostic

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• When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Vedas, Gita, Agnostic

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “Karmayogin”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

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• As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families.

  Robert Simonds

  Christian, Children, School

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• When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.

  Moby

  Christian, Growing Up, Eight

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• If you can frame climate change as an alternate religion, or as one more of those issues where the pointy-headed liberal atheist scientists are trying to discredit the Bible, then you've already got a ton of people on your side who are concerned about heresy, other religions, or teaching evolution in schools.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Teaching, School, Your Side

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Christine Jennings

  Believe, People, Enlightenment

  Source: therumpus.net

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