Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 40

• In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

  Philip Schaff

  Country, Exercise, Atheism

  Philip Schaff (1888). “Church and State in the United States ; Or, The American Idea of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Effects: With Official Documents”

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• The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

  Philip Schaff

  Government, Atheism, United States

  Philip Schaff (1888). “Church and State in the United States ; Or, The American Idea of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Effects: With Official Documents”

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• Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged an identity to which the individual inevitably becomes strongly attached psychologically.

  Edgar Schein

  Commitment, Atheism, Identity

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• Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Perfection, Atheism, Doe

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1936). “Philosophical Inquiries Into the Nature of Human Freedom”, p.84, Open Court Publishing

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• To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Years, Envy, Atheism

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• Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Men, Supernatural Beings, Envy

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• Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

  Theodore Schroeder

  Atheism, Influence, Humans

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• I despise those shallow religious comics. Dennis the Menace, for instance, is the most shallow. When they show him praying - I just can't stand that sort of thing, talking to God about some cutesy thing that he'd done during the day. I don't think Hank Ketcham has any deep knowledge of things like that.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Religious, Thinking, Talking

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• There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth, and died to give his work its final consecration, never had any existence. He is a figure designed by rationalism, endowed with life by liberalism, and clothed by modern theology in an historical garb.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Giving, Heaven

  Albert Schweitzer (2010). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.396, Lulu.com

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• But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to be honest. The critical study of the life of Jesus has been for theology a school of honesty. The world had never seen before, and will never see again, a struggle for truth so full of pain and renunciation as that of which the Lives of Jesus of the last hundred years contain the cryptic record.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Honesty, Pain

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• The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Teacher, Jesus, Believe

  "The Quest of the Historical Jesus". Book by Albert Schweitzer, transl. by W. Montgomery, 1906.

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• Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the universe - through literature, theology, aesthetics, art or music.

  Eugenie Scott

  Art, Knowing, Atheism

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

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• I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

  Eugenie Scott

  Thinking, Data, Atheism

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

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• There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred.

  Eugenie Scott

  Atheism, Bait, Textbooks

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• I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We shouldn't be teaching creationism.' Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

  Eugenie Scott

  Teaching, Mean, School

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

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• Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

  Eugenie Scott

  School, Leader, Atheism

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

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• It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Atheism, Weak

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• There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blessing, House, Atheism

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• Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Atheism, Faces

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 5, l. [29]

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• His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Atheism, Way

  1597-8 Mistress Quickly.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act1, sc.4, l.11-12.

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• I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Atheism, Reign, Strife

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1266, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the Christian era, showing that the doctrine of Trinity in Unity already formed part of their religion and that ... the three gods only made one person.

  Samuel Sharpe

  Christian, Museums, Unity

  Samuel Sharpe (1863). “Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom”, p.14

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• We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel; and as we have historical assurance that the chapters in Matthew's gospel which contain the miraculous birth are an after addition not in the earliest manuscripts, it seems probable that these two poetical chapters in Luke may also be unhistorical, and borrowed from the Egyptian accounts of the miraculous births of their kings.

  Samuel Sharpe

  Kings, Two, Historical

  Samuel Sharpe (1863). “Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom”, p.19

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• It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Father, Fall, Atheism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “The Necessity of Atheism”, p.8, Booklassic

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• Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge... Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again - I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Crush, Revenge, Feelings

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1964). “Shelley in England”

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