Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
The pope focused on scriptural readings that said God's love was seen in the marvels of creation. ... fooled by the atheism that they carry inside of them, imagine a universe free of direction and order, as if at the mercy of chance.
I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.
By night an atheist half believes a God.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
An atheist is a guy who watches a Ntre Dame - SMU football game and doesn't care who wins
If the human body is the greatest MASTERpiece in the universe, isn't it logical too to conclude that there is a Master who designed it a rebuttal against atheism.
People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
An atheist is a person who has no visible means of support
It's easier to say that I am a radical Atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.
By night an atheist half believes in a God.
What we need in america today is a vigorous return to the god of our fathers and a most vigorous defense against the minion of godlessness and atheism.
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Thank God I'm an atheist.
You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
If we are honest, we freely admit that the Christian system involves difficulties but so does every other system. No thoughtful person gives up a position merely because he finds difficulties in it he does not abandon it until he is able to find other and alternative systems with fewer difficulties. . . . I learned from my professors of philosophy. . . that, while philosophy might not provide me with a watertight intellectual defense of the Christian faith, it would, if used aright, help me to reveal the weakness of its enemies. By careful analysis it is possible to see that there are glaring weaknesses and non-sequiturs in atheism, naturalism, positivism, scientism, and psychologism. The Christian must be a fighter, for he is always under attack. The Church will not be as strong as it ought to be until each local pastor uses his precious freedom from outside employment in order to become a scholarly participant in the intellectual struggle of our day and generation.
I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
I see why people think it is, and sometimes I do. And sometimes I don't think it's selfish. I'm probably an atheist, though I was raised a Catholic - and that whole religion is based on the first suicide, in many ways.
That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that The clergymen consider me as such- be it so but I love, and how could I feel love if I did not live, and if others did not live, and then, if we live, t
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.
The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion.
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it''
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than any book ever written it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist.... We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy i.
I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
I gradually slipped away from religion over several years and became an atheist or to be more philosophically correct, a sceptical agnostic.
Even an atheist may be ready to concede that a good wine is the drink of gods.
A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism.
I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.
I am a daylight atheist.
But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top
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