How will unbelief look in the flames of hell? There are no infidels anywhere but on earth! There are none in heaven, and there are none in hell. Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice, for “the devils believe and tremble.” And there are some of the devil’s children […]
Atheism Quotes
Mrs. Turner tells me that Mr. Will Pen (sic), who is lately come over from Ireland, is a Quaker again, or some very melancholy thing; that he cares for no company, nor comes into any – which is a pleasant thing, after his being abroad so long – and his father such a hypocritical rogue, […]
I think that in philosophical strictness at the level where one doubts the existence of material objects and holds that the world may have existed for only five minutes, I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist. I do not think the existence of the Christian God […]
The opinions of the village atheist are as fundamentalist as anything any Baptist ever believed.
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.
I was told that the Chinese said that they would would bury me by the Western lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very “chic” for an atheist.
Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power.
At the age of eighteen… I read Mill’s Autobiography, where I found a sentence to the effect that his father taught him that the question ‘Who made me?’ cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question ‘Who made God?’. This led me to abandon the ‘First Cause’ argument, and to become an atheist. […]
It is an interesting view of atheism, as a sort of “crutch” for those who can’t stand the reality of God.
