Atheist Quotes - Page 31

• My atheism doesn't define my day-to-day life at all. But I realize - and maybe it is because, unlike people who sort of stay comfortably in a religion, I had to do a lot of thinking and reading before I realized that I was an atheist.

  Susan Jacoby

  Reading, Thinking, People

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• I'm not saying that I think atheists are better than other people. God, no. What I am saying is I do feel that this an integral part of who I am. And it's not something that I could comfortably think of not sharing with the person I loved most in the world.

  Susan Jacoby

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• I have received many touching letters and emails from people who live in the most religious parts of the country, in places like rural Texas, saying it is so good to see someone be able to say I am an atheist without shame.

  Susan Jacoby

  Country, Religious, Texas

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to the declaration of a clearly unbalanced nineteenth century philosopher that God is dead! That's cheeky, of course - and one rarely comes away from reading Nietzsche without learning something new and significant. He's certainly FAR more unsettling for faith than any contemporary atheist I know of.

  George Pattison

  Reading, Pride, Learning Something New

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

  Tim Crane

  Religious, Art, Abandoned

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm not a militant atheist, just an atheist. In fact, in a largely atheist country like the UK I think it's a bit silly to be a militant atheist.

  Tim Crane

  Country, Silly, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm a hardened atheist but I feel that we have an inbuilt need for God. If you eradicate religion, you end up with something terrible in its place, like the communist state, as in Russia or China, where the dictator becomes the messiah figure.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Russia, Needs, Dictator

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

  David Pajo

  Angel, Band, Eras

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others.

  Chaz Bufe

  Believe, Mean, Feelings

  Chaz Bufe (2016). “American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.29, See Sharp Press

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• There are no atheists in the foxholes.

  William Thomas Cummings

  Insightful, Foxholes, World War 2

  Quoted in Carlos P. Romulo, I Saw the Fall of the Philippines (1943)

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• For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that was certain, but he also resented her. He loved her strength and practicality but resented her overbearing personality and tendency to do things on his behalf without consulting him first; loved that she tolerated his interest in all things exotic and erotic but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion.

  Mark Hodder

  First Love, Years, Personality

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• The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own sources and specific roots. We should analyze these.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Religious, Roots, People

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• For me, equal citizenship for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists and Agnostics is an indisputable principle. Whoever you are, you should get the same rights with no discussion and no compromise.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Christian, Rights, Principles

  "'You Want My Reaction? You Get My Silence'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• We live in a very pluralistic society today. There are Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, atheists, Roman Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and Christians like me. There are a wide variety of religious expressions in this country. I think they all must be treated with respect and none of them must be given priority in the public arena.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Adults, Agnostic

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Catholic, Different

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of the spirit world. Thank you for allowing me to speak about the spiritual, because I can't talk about my life or writing without mentioning that.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Spiritual, Mean, Writing

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• A traveler amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstration of God's power, had the hardihood to write against his name, in an album kept for visitors, "An atheist." Another who followed, shocked and indignant at the inscription, wrote beneath it, If an atheist, a fool; if not, a liar!

  George Barrell Cheever

  Liars, Writing, Names

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• There are no atheist in foxholes.

  William Thomas Cummings

  Atheism, Foxholes

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• Here is book called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, written by a couple of Christian apologists, which is essentially saying I don't pretend enough to know things I don't know to be an atheist.

  Peter Boghossian

  Christian, Couple, Book

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• There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.

  Jacques Maritain

  Fighting, Challenges, Atheism

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• Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.

  Michael Buble

  Orators

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Office, Would Be

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, People, Culture

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.patheos.com

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