Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 26

• Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God.

  Billy Graham

  Play, Atheism, Looks

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• The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Believe, Law, Civilization

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• I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Evil, Atheism, Church

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• The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

  Kersey Graves

  Country, Religious, Teaching

  Kersey Graves (1875). “The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods”, p.4

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• There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.

  Horace Greeley

  Atheism, Vedas, Doctrine

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• Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells me that this gift of reason, which they call god-given, may be the match that lights the fires of hell for all who dare to use it, since whatever is not of faith is sin.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Christian, Animal, Destiny

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

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Atheist, Reading, Atheism

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• The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Atheism, Depth, Profile

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• But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel. "Tell no one" was often his command.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Jesus, Light, Atheism

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• The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Christian, Fall, Fighting

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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

  Atheist, Brave, Atheism

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• We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men in the wilderness, seems to me to be almost an archetypal image of human beings on their own, human beings making their own way, guiding themselves by the stars they can see - rather than by faith or prayer or invisible forces.

  Maxine Greene

  Stars, Prayer, Men

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• The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.

  William Rathbone Greg

  Daughter, Son, Men

  William Rathbone Greg (1851). “The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure”, p.98

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• All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.

  William Rathbone Greg

  Reality, Atheism, Events

  William Rathbone Greg (1874). “The Creed of Christendom: Its Foundations Contrasted with Its Superstructure”, p.121

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• O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Vanity, Law, Sick

  Fulke Greville, “Mustapha”

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• If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Blood, Atheism, Delight

  Fulke Greville, “Mustapha”

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• There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Men, Atheism, Inspired

  Alfred Whitney Griswold (1962). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

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• The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

  Georgia Harkness

  Atheism, Doctrine, Sin

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• The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.

  William Rainey Harper

  Country, Atheism, Majority

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• If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the "happy holiday" sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy day, then they are aiming at the wrong Target.

  Charles Haynes

  Christian, Religious, Holiday

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• That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

  Ben Hecht

  Atheism, Proof, Existence

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Days Gone By, Atheism, Proof

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• He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

  Heinrich Heine

  Lying, Fighting, Cutting

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of Travel”, p.466

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• I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.

  Heinrich Heine

  Order, Baptism, Honor

  Heinrich Heine (1934). “Prose and poetry”

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• Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and that is none at all ... let people be heretikes, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it apperteynes not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.

  Thomas Helwys

  Kings, People, Catholic

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