Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 36

• Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia should be commended for acknowledging that his views are so strong that - should the Pledge case reach the Supreme Court - he wouldn't be able to maintain the requisite impartiality.

  Michael Newdow

  Strong, Views, Justice

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• He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

  Michael Newdow

  Smart, Men, Atheism

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• The sight of one man standing up to challenge God and country is something that Madison, Jefferson and Franklin would cheer, and every American can celebrate.

  Kenneth C. Davis

  Country, Cheer, Men

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• When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.

  Isaac Newton

  Atheism, Erasmus, Trinity

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• What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh."

  Isaac Newton

  Latin, Years, Greek

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• If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.

  Isaac Newton

  Two, Atheism, Church

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.1746, Delphi Classics

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• The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.

  Isaac Newton

  Christian, Light, Years

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• I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

  Isaac Newton

  Children, Ocean, Atheism

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• Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheism, Criteria, Theologian

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?

  Nel Noddings

  Atheism, World, Creatures

  Nel Noddings (1991). “Women and Evil”, p.23, Univ of California Press

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• Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian... There is no lost Golden Age to which American Christians may return.

  Mark Noll

  Christian, America, Atheism

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• One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Giving Up, Atheism, May

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• It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Atheism, Doe, Topics

  John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

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• The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Religious, Loss, Maturity

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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• Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades later you can tell me it's a living document ever changing and is open to interpretation. The guys who wrote it were light years ahead of anyone today, and they meant what they said - now leave the document alone, or there's going to be trouble.

  Ted Nugent

  Country, Light, Years

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• What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

  Sean O'Casey

  Struggle, Destiny, Men

  Sean O'Casey (1963). “Autobiographies”

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• I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no Fall, and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two. Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Jesus, Liars, Fall

  Flannery O'Connor (1965). “Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories”, p.27, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

  George Orwell

  Men, Atheism, Anarchist

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Mind, Atheism

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

  John Osborne

  Emotional, Atheism, Dies

  John Osborne (2014). “Looking Back”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.

  Ouida

  Enemy, Atheism, Christianity

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

  Ouida

  Winning, Atheism, World

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• Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things improved since. The blood-soaked history of persecution, torture, murder, and destruction perpetrated in the name of religion is difficult to grasp, let alohne summarize, from the slaughter of Christians to the Crusades to the Inquisitiion to the Reformation to the European witchcraze to colonialization to today's bitter coflict in the Middle East.

  Elaine Pagels

  Christian, Blood, Names

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• The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Rude, Atheism

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• I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.

  Thomas Paine

  Determination, Real, Mistake

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.189, Rowman & Littlefield

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