Atheism is unknown there; infidelity rare and secret; so that persons may live to a great age in that country, without having their piety shocked by meeting with either an Atheist or an Infidel. (1782 pamphlet “Information to Those Who Would Remove to America.”)
Atheism Quotes
If we did a good act merely from the love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? It is idle to say, as some do, that no such thing exists. We have the same evidence of the fact as of most of those we […]
It is only the athiest who adopts success as the criterion of right.
Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out and out unbeliever.
The atheist, for his part, does not necessarily offer an explanation; he simply does not accept the theist’s explanation. Therefore, the atheist need only demonstrate that the theist has failed to justify his position.
My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations.
No, I don’t know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
