Quotes of: Atheist Keyword

Atheists’ anger doesn’t prove that we’re selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We’re angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it.

Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless

No, not at all. I’m an atheist. You could say that I’m agnostic, but that’s just a certain kind of atheist (laughs). An atheist is someone who lacks a belief in a supernatural, and that’s me. I can’t say with absolute certainty that there i...

Steve Albini

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)...

Down and Out in Paris and London

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

Oriana Fallaci

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

Tony Blair

People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, 'Well, are you a Republican or an American?' The two words serve different concepts an...

Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Killosophy

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.

Killosophy

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

Carl Sagan

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

Julia Sweeney

I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.

Patton Oswalt

One of the misconceptions about atheism is that it somehow means someone denies the possibility of a deity. In all actuality, it simply means you don’t believe it to be the case — a point that should not be hard to understand with the complete la...

Mom, Dad, I'm an Atheist: The Guide to Coming Out as a Non-Believer

Up to now, most atheists have simply criticized religion in various ways, but the point is to dispel it. In A Manual For Creating Atheists, fills that gap, telling the reader how to become a ‘street epistemologist’ with the skills to attack relig...

Jerry A. Coyne

Prior to Flew, major apologies for atheism were those of Enlightenment thinkers (David Hume, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Friedrich Nietzsche). Major philosophers of Flew’s generation who were atheists: W. V. O. Quine and Gilbert Ryle...

There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

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

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

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

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

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

Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.

What Is Agnosticism

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!

Pope Francis

In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I guess it’s true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That’s atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

Cassandra Clare