Charles Bradlaugh Quotes About Affirmations

• I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Ideas, Atheism, Would Be

  Charles Bradlaugh (1875). “A Few Words About the Devil: And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays”, p.263, Library of Alexandria

• The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Christian, Atheist, Mean

• I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. I cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  War, Ideas, Being Positive

  Charles Bradlaugh (1875). “A Few Words About the Devil: And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays”, p.263, Library of Alexandria

• Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Atheism, Affirmation, Form

• I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Mean, Sound, Affirmation

  Charles Bradlaugh (1889). “Theological Essays”, p.195, Library of Alexandria

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin