Atheism Quotes - Page 9

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

Religion doesn't just cloud our minds. It asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves- to replace reason with its opposite, faith. And when men operate on faith, they can no longer be reasoned with, which makes them more dangerous than any sane man, good or evil.

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.

Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.

A man without reason is no better than a mad dog, and mad dogs must be put down for the good of everyone.

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.