A man I admire, who has held the highest medical position in the United States, recently declared, “There are no atheists at the bedside of a dying child.” It is a compassionate statement, nobly expressed, with which every humane person must sympathize. But, with all respect, it is simply untrue. Nor have I ever felt […]
Atheism Quotes
If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!
Atheism, that bugbear of women and fools, is the very top and perfection of freethinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty.
The atheist does not say “there is no God,” but he says “I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God; the word ‘God’ is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation… The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not […]
To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect. “he” becomes a being, not Being itself. An […]
