Atheist Quotes - Page 33

• I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.

  Charles Stross

  Reform, British, Judaism

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• The atheist barista (who's obsessed with astrology) asked me, "So what's your sign?" I responded, "The sign of the cross." I think she spit in my coffee.

  Mark Hart

  Coffee, Thinking, Astrology

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• He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Justice, Example, Divine

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• The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Believe, Long

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• The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Want, Lists

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• Richard Dawkins says he can't be sure God doesn't exist. Well, you know what I do when I'm not sure about something? I go on a big crusade about it and write a bunch of books on the subject. No, wait, that sounds more like what someone with a mental disorder would do. That's one of the crazy things about lots of atheists: They're whole movement is supposed to be about being logical and reasonable, yet they tend to rail against religion is a very mindless way that doesn't seem to serve any more purpose than a tantrum. Perhaps I just don't understand their strong faith in not having faith.

  Frank J. Fleming

  Strong, Crazy, Book

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• An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  What Matters, Belief, Ethical

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• I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Worry, Chance, Existential

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• I would not say that ethical behavior is not possible for the atheist or agnostic. It is. A couple of pretty good examples are Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre. However, I will have to say that if we take the human lot as a whole, these two men must be seen as exceptions.

  Huston Smith

  Couple, Men, Agnostic

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• If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Fall, Mean

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• Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.

  Mitt Romney

  Tests, Test Of Faith

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• What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.

  Dane Cook

  Happens, Dies, Things Happen

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• There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

  Paul Krugman

  Foxholes, Libertarian, Financial

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• In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God ... I think that generally (& more and more so as I grow older) but not always, that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind.

  Charles Darwin

  Thinking, Mind, Would Be

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11757, Delphi Classics

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• I used to be an atheist until I realized that I was God.

  Deepak Chopra

  Used, I Realized, Used To Be

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• My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them." I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Attitude, Men

  "The Mike Wallace Interview". www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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• It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

  George Harrison

  Hypocrite, Outspoken

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Looks, Affection, No Fear

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• I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.

  Kedar Joshi

  Agnostic, Theist

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• The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Believe, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not opposites, and that atheists are far from being on the side of reason. You can find on our website a chart which I use to demonstrate the various worldviews work out, and which one, Christianity, is rational. Many kids, however, who grow up huddled in a Christian environment find themselves in the university setting completely unequipped to defend the rationality of the Christian faith against the secular humanist worldview so prevalent on college campuses.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Jobs, Growing Up

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• Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.

  Penn Jillette

  Religious, Punishment, Rewards

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• If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.

  Tom Flynn

  Lonely, Strong, Weight

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• I was born a Christian, but I became an atheist back in high school because I just started losing faith. I'd lost my brother and best friend, Nadarius. I couldn't get a job. But I do feel like there is a higher power now, and it's inside of me.

  SpaceGhostPurrp

  Christian, Brother, Jobs

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!

  Vladimir Lenin

  Real, Lying, Years

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