Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
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.
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
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.
The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.
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.
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.
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?
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""
Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
or simply:
