Atheist Quotes
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I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist.
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Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
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You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?
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Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self.
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I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.
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All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
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If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.
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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?
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How can you be a vegetarian atheist and own a gun? Well, that's who I am.
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?
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Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.
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The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
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Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?
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Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.
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The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.
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I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.
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Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.
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As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.
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I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
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I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
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Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.
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New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing.
