Quotes of: Atheist Keyword

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Atheists determine there is no God based on their own intellect. I've determined there is a God based on His intellect.

William Branks

By now, was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which remained all his life.

Quantum Reflections

When an atheist is born, a kitten kills a god.

YMMV: The Second Skelly Manor Short Story

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

Rick Warren

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

Winona Ryder

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

Penn Jillette

Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!

Giovanni Papini

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Julian Baggini

Our atheist thoughts go out to his family following their loss.

Brian Spellman

I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure.

James Rozoff

If the creation of the Universe was left up to a atheist, we would still have nothing.

Josko J. Sestan

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.

Rocco Buttiglione

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

Adam Sedgwick

If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to the true believers of all the great religions of the world?" Birbal was a devout Brahmin from Trivikrampur, but he answered unhesitatingly, "I would sa...

The Enchantress Of Florence

It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant to know that there's no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who loves you personally. It's not sad to feel that ...

God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales

Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously gave us the ‘God is dead’ phrase was interested in the sources of morality. He warned that the emergence of something (whether an organ, a legal institution, or a religious ritual) is never to be confused with it...

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is a God who has a hand in wishing to make us so. We no longer have to be brought into line by the threat of hell or the promise of paradise; we merely ...

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most imp...

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Atheism is a conclusion reached by the most reasonable methods and one which is not asserted dogmatically but is explained in its every feature by the light of reason. The atheist does not boast of knowing in a vainglorious, empty sense. He understan...

The meaning of atheism

It's an insidious idea, this notion that there is life after death. The promise of a reward in the afterlife has been used as an excuse to deny help to the poor, helpless and oppressed; to explain away human misery rather than deal with it. It is an ...

The Young Atheists Handbook