The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismists, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.
Atheism Quotes
The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was… accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on Earth. Presuming we gradually enter upon the reverse course, there is no small probability that with the irresistible decline of faith in the Christian god, there is now a considerable decline in […]
We have grown used to a Godless universe, but we are not yet accustomed to one which is loveless as well, and only when we have so become shall we realize what atheism really means.
Beliefs, including religious ones, are learned. Which makes atheism a normal state of affairs and religious beliefs a learned “abnormality”. No psychological theory is necessary to explain the causes of a normal base state. Any psychological theory of learning, attitude change or socialization can explain the causes of religious belief.
In America, however, most of our atheists are actually thinly disguised Christians, or sometimes thinly disguised Jews, who want to retain the humanism taught by the Creator, without believing in the Creator. They believe in the image of God, without believing in God. They want the Kingdom of God – the Kingdom of compassion, justice, […]
A sanctimonious man is one who under an atheist king would be atheist.
Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.
One must feel sorry for atheists. They seem so lonely. Alone not only under the vast stars of a summer’s night, in all this immense cosmos. And passing through it as we do all, as evanescently as fireflies. But alone also in this religion-drenched country, most of whose public spaces reek of faith in the […]
If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.
We did a show last night about God and religion with Dave Foley, who I love, and we were arguing against this one woman who had a book called I Like Being Catholic. Someone said, ‘Oh, boy, a lot of atheists on this panel.’ I said, ‘I’m not an atheist. There’s a really big difference […]
