Over the years I realized the god I prayed to was the god I invented. When I was talking to him, I was talking to myself. He had no understanding or qualities that I did not have. When I realized god was an extension of my imagination, I stopped praying to him.
Atheism Quotes
I try to be an atheist, but it’s very hard. God is what makes you aspire beyond yourself, aspire incredibly… God is the Sistine Chapel, the Ninth Symphony, God is Bach and the Prado Museum! And this is what I’ve tried to show in my work.
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismists, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.
The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was… accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on Earth. Presuming we gradually enter upon the reverse course, there is no small probability that with the irresistible decline of faith in the Christian god, there is now a considerable decline in […]
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, […]
A sanctimonious man is one who under an atheist king would be atheist.
