Thank you, but I’m afraid I can’t accept your compliment. (a fan of Babylon 5 told Straczynski that he was God) You see, I’m an atheist, so if I’m also God, that would mean that I don’t believe in myself, and at this point in my life, I don’t need the added insecurity.
Atheism Quotes
I am an intransigent atheist, but not a militant one. This means that I am an uncompromising advocate of reason and that I am fighting “for” reason, not “against” religion. I must also mention that I do respect religion in its philosophical aspects, in the sense that it represents an early form of philosophy.
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
I might qualify as the most hardened atheist, and I have not the slightest need to believe in stuff that is not in some way verifiable.
He’s the type of guy that has to talk to God because nobody else will listen to him.
I do not attend church regularly because I already found “God.” But “God” isn’t what you think it is. “God” is a screaming child in Ethiopia whose kidneys have shut down and is about to die from starvation. “God” is a dumpster in Vatican City where urchins (just as in every city in the world) […]
An atheist is a man who believes himself to be an accident.
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, […]
