Atheism, therefore, is the absence of theistic belief. One who does not believe in the existence of a god or supernatural being is properly designated as an atheist. Atheism is sometimes defined as “the belief that there is no God of any kind,” or the claim that a god cannot exist. While these are categories […]
Atheism Quotes
God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith… and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me […]
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 […]
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.
