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.
Atheism Quotes
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 […]
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
There is no quality and there is no power of man that was created to no purpose… But to what end can the denial of God have been created? This too can be uplifted through deeds of charity. For if someone comes to you and asks your help, you shall not turn him off with […]
Regius maintains that there are no gods and that heaven is unoccupied. His evidence in favor of atheism is that he is a prosperous man.
