My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else
Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
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