Atheist Quotes - Page 38

• If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

  Annie Dillard

  Believe, Common Sense, Judging

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.146, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheism, Doe, World

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• To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

  David Brooks

  Religion, Atheism, Logical

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• I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Religion, Atheism

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.125, Psychology Press

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• I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Believe, School, Religion

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• Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Pain, Lying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.216, Library of Alexandria

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• Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Atheism, Anti Religious

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• The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.

  Garrett Hardin

  Dog, Blessing, Religion

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• I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Religion, Atheism

  "How born-again George became a man on a mission" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

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• I don't know anyone less Jesus like than Christians.

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Jesus, Religion

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• To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Real, Atheism, Scientist

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• Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Historical, Doubt, Atheism

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• An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Men, Atheism, Trying

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• The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

  H. G. Wells

  Heart, Atheism, Blank

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• We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

  William Temple

  Love, Names, Atheism

  William Temple (1965). “Daily readings”

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• There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Thinking, Miracle

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• Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Hands, Parent

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Jobs, Acceptance, Race

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• Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic.

  Eric Chaisson

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.254, Columbia University Press

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• We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

  Catherine Fahringer

  Science, Years, Mind

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• What happens when we're dead? The irony is that all our questions wil be answered after we die. We spend our whole life trying to figure out the truth and the only way we'll find out what it is, is to get hit by a bus. And the only comfort that religion offers is that God is driving that bus.

  John Ryman

  Religious, Trying, Comfort

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• Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Long, Heaven

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• A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

  Arthur Lynch

  Atheism, Doe, Belief

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• We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own

  Barack Obama

  Buddhist, Grace, Mind Blowing

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• It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "On the Value of Scepticism"

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