Quotes about Atheist

Where knowledge ends, religion begins. Votes: 5

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. Votes: 5

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. Votes: 4

I gave in, and admitted that God was God. Votes: 4

I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist.. Votes: 4

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. Votes: 4

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion Votes: 4

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. Votes: 4

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. Votes: 4

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Votes: 3

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Votes: 3

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself. Votes: 3

An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant. Votes: 3

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Votes: 3

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Votes: 3

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, but You Can't Make Him Think, Votes: 3

Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character? Votes: 3

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. Votes: 3

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. Votes: 3

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. Votes: 3

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Votes: 3

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid. Votes: 3

It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist Votes: 3

The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails. Votes: 3

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. Votes: 3

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God. Votes: 3

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Votes: 3

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. Votes: 3

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress. Votes: 3

Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair was murdered. Jon Murray and Robin Murray-O'Hair were also murdered by individuals involved with the atheist organization. Votes: 3

Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices. Votes: 3

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc. Votes: 3

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Votes: 3

Atheist's denial of God's existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist's claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God's existence. Votes: 3

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest! Votes: 3

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book. Votes: 3

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me. Votes: 3

The Theist tells us that the truth is god exists,the Atheist tells us that the truth is there is no god,while the truth tells us we don't know. Votes: 3

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it. Votes: 3

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. Votes: 3

My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish. Votes: 3

O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. Votes: 3

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God. Votes: 3

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did. Votes: 3

An Atheist loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist knows that heaven is something for which we should work now, here on earth, for all men together to enjoy. Votes: 3

Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god. But these were people who in their times were criticized as infidels. Votes: 3

When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will. Votes: 3

I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America. Votes: 3

Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others. Votes: 3

The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate. Votes: 3

Here is book called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, written by a couple of Christian apologists, which is essentially saying I don't pretend enough to know things I don't know to be an atheist. Votes: 3

An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without a concept of God that is logically convincing, not with proof that God does not exist. Votes: 3

"Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since it has often been used to blacken anyone with the slightest doubt about the teachings of religion. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Atheist, in the strict and proper sense of the word, is one who does not believe in the existence of a god, or who owns no being superior to nature. It is compounded of the two terms ... signifying without God. Votes: 3

I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me. Votes: 3

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. Votes: 3

If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God. Votes: 3

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? Votes: 3

If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again. Votes: 3

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me. Votes: 2

Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. Votes: 2

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls? Votes: 1

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist. Votes: 1

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. Votes: 1

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion. Votes: 1

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. Votes: 1

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house. Votes: 1

I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is. Votes: 1

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. Votes: 1

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors. Votes: 1

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it. Votes: 1

Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism. Votes: 1

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. Votes: 1

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt. Votes: 1

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy. Votes: 1

I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers. Votes: 1

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. Votes: 1

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs. Votes: 1

I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that. Votes: 1

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.' Votes: 1

I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that. Votes: 1

A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn. Votes: 1

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong. Votes: 1

You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ... or you think he's a liar. And I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, 'He's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to get elected.' It's a horrible reason to like somebody. Votes: 1

Everyday is an atheist holiday. Votes: 0

Thank God I'm an atheist. Votes: 0

The atheist has no hope. Votes: 0

I am a daylight atheist. Votes: 0

No one ever dies an atheist..... Votes: 0

I'm a born - again atheist. Votes: 0

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist. Votes: 0

An agnostic is a cowardly atheist. Votes: 0

There are no atheist in foxholes..... Votes: 0

I'm still an atheist, thank God. Votes: 0

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist. Votes: 0

I rightly pass for an atheist. Votes: 0

No atheist says there is no god! Votes: 0

There is no bigot like the atheist. Votes: 0

There is no bigot like the atheist. Votes: 0

Every one starts out being an atheist. Votes: 0

Thank God, I am still an atheist. Votes: 0

By night an atheist half-believes in God. Votes: 0

My parents were secular. I am an atheist. Votes: 0

What does an atheist scream when they come? Votes: 0

The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist. Votes: 0

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all. Votes: 0

An atheist is as religious as a theist. Votes: 0

Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist. Votes: 0

Thank you God for making me an atheist. Votes: 0

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist? Votes: 0

I am an atheist, thanks be to God. Votes: 0

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil. Votes: 0

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum. Votes: 0

But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose. Votes: 0

As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God Votes: 0

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist. Votes: 0

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. Votes: 0

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist. Votes: 0

I think only an idiot can be an atheist. Votes: 0

By night an atheist half believes in a God. Votes: 0

It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist. Votes: 0

By night an atheist half believes in a God Votes: 0

The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission Votes: 0

An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended! Votes: 0

I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist. Votes: 0

I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist. Votes: 0

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live. Votes: 0

Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist. Votes: 0

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. Votes: 0

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. Votes: 0

I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist. Votes: 0

It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist Votes: 0

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks. Votes: 0

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist. Votes: 0

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist. Votes: 0

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism. Votes: 0

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives Votes: 0

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite. Votes: 0

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist. Votes: 0

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. Votes: 0

You are an atheist if you do not believe in yourself. Votes: 0

My dog is an atheist: he no longer believes in me. Votes: 0

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife... Votes: 0

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist. Votes: 0

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart..... Votes: 0

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. Votes: 0

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist. Votes: 0

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it. Votes: 0

In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops! Votes: 0

If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist? Votes: 0

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. Votes: 0

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God. Votes: 0

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do. Votes: 0

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. Votes: 0

I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic. Votes: 0

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim." Votes: 0

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand! Votes: 0

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints. Votes: 0

Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist. Votes: 0

Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly. Votes: 0

As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like. Votes: 0

It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God. Votes: 0

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist. Votes: 0

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight. Votes: 0

I used to be an atheist until I realized that I was God. Votes: 0

I am a religious by the heart, but an atheist by the mind. Votes: 0

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass. Votes: 0

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth. Votes: 0

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies? Votes: 0

I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything. Votes: 0

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. Votes: 0

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. Votes: 0

Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully. Votes: 0

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic. Votes: 0

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God. Votes: 0

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. Votes: 0

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. Votes: 0

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation. Votes: 0

I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that. Votes: 0

In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith Votes: 0

I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I dont believe in God. Votes: 0

I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist. Votes: 0

Even an atheist finds God when they point at what they don't believe in. Votes: 0

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist. Votes: 0

I say I'm an atheist but I wouldn't mind being visited by a ghost. Votes: 0

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition. Votes: 0

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist. Votes: 0

I'm an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women's rights. Votes: 0

An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable. Votes: 0

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition. Votes: 0

For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic. Votes: 0

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why. Votes: 0

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche? Votes: 0

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist. Votes: 0

I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible Votes: 0

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage. Votes: 0

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven Votes: 0

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist. Votes: 0

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. Votes: 0

Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label. Votes: 0

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. Votes: 0

How can you be a vegetarian atheist and own a gun? Well, that's who I am. Votes: 0

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist. Votes: 0

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker. Votes: 0

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. Votes: 0

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him. Votes: 0

I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one. Votes: 0

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist. Votes: 0

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces. Votes: 0

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. Votes: 0

By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist. Votes: 0

I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept. Votes: 0

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble Votes: 0

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant. Votes: 0

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. Votes: 0

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world. Votes: 0

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. Votes: 0

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope. Votes: 0

The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect. Votes: 0

She flashes me a smile so devastating that it could even make an atheist believe in God. Votes: 0

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. Votes: 0

Screw guilt -- I could have sex with 10 men and it wouldn't bother me. I'm an atheist! Votes: 0

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. Votes: 0

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot). Votes: 0

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist. Votes: 0

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. Votes: 0

When a man calls himself an atheist, he is not attacking God; he is attacking his own conscience. Votes: 0

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian. Votes: 0

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. Votes: 0

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument. Votes: 0

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual. Votes: 0

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion. Votes: 0

I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people, Votes: 0

I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people. Votes: 0

The incentive for a religious person turning into an atheist is to have a better and happier life Votes: 0

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour. Votes: 0

What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens. Votes: 0

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people. Votes: 0

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions. Votes: 0

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see..... Votes: 0

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. Votes: 0

If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist! Votes: 0

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet! Votes: 0

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ? Votes: 0

As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite Votes: 0

I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is. Votes: 0

I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don't believe in spirituality of some kind. Votes: 0

An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God. Votes: 0

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god. Votes: 0

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. Votes: 0

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it. Votes: 0

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from? Votes: 0

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it. Votes: 0

I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me. Votes: 0

Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind. Votes: 0

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. Votes: 0

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. Votes: 0

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god Votes: 0

He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill. Votes: 0

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. Votes: 0

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist. Votes: 0

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God. Votes: 0

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too. Votes: 0

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it. Votes: 0

The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else. Votes: 0

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. Votes: 0

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. Votes: 0

I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.' Votes: 0

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm. Votes: 0

I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere. Votes: 0

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them. Votes: 0

The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy. Votes: 0

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. Votes: 0

If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything. Votes: 0

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. Votes: 0

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. Votes: 0

I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank. Votes: 0

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god. Votes: 0

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less. Votes: 0

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. Votes: 0

He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill. Votes: 0

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism. Votes: 0

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music. Votes: 0

I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI Votes: 0

When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me. Votes: 0

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian. Votes: 0

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason. Votes: 0

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters. Votes: 0

I'm a total atheist, and for me it's just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living. Votes: 0

It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist. Votes: 0

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats. Votes: 0

Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him. Votes: 0

For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums. Votes: 0

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor. Votes: 0

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself. Votes: 0

The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook. Votes: 0

Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable. Votes: 0

The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.' Votes: 0

Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends. Votes: 0

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist. Votes: 0

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. Votes: 0

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality. Votes: 0

I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us. Votes: 0

You never hear in the news, 'Two hundred killed today when atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the agnostic stronghold in the north.' Votes: 0

I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate. Votes: 0

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah. Votes: 0

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Votes: 0

Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent! Votes: 0

I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt. Votes: 0

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit. Votes: 0

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing. Votes: 0

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God. Votes: 0

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God. Votes: 0

I'm not scared of dying, because I'm an atheist. I won't even know I'm dead. You know why? Because I'll be fùckin' dead. Votes: 0

Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise. Votes: 0

With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist. Votes: 0

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty. Votes: 0

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. Votes: 0

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist! Votes: 0

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa. Votes: 0

I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable. Votes: 0

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population. Votes: 0

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason. Votes: 0

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness. Votes: 0

When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit! Votes: 0

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death. Votes: 0

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all. Votes: 0

I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist. Votes: 0

Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both. Votes: 0

There's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy away from full-fledged Christian. Votes: 0

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave. Votes: 0

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification. Votes: 0

The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator. Votes: 0

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. Votes: 0

There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office. Votes: 0

The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world. Votes: 0

Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic. Votes: 0

I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's no God! There might be! Votes: 0

The atheist barista (who's obsessed with astrology) asked me, "So what's your sign?" I responded, "The sign of the cross." I think she spit in my coffee... Votes: 0

I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon. Votes: 0

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. Votes: 0

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. Votes: 0

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you. Votes: 0

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense. Votes: 0

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label. Votes: 0

I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it"¦. Votes: 0

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character. Votes: 0

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian. Votes: 0

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas. Votes: 0

For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved. Votes: 0

Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love. Votes: 0

Svante Arrhenius, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1903), was a declared atheist and the author of The Evolution of the Worlds and other works on cosmic physics. Votes: 0

There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it. Votes: 0

I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?". Votes: 0

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Votes: 0

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance. Votes: 0

An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter! Votes: 0

A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing. Votes: 0

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere. Votes: 0

American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America. Votes: 0

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Votes: 0

I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here. Votes: 0

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer. Votes: 0

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe. Votes: 0

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist. Votes: 0

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people. Votes: 0

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do. Votes: 0

As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it's only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it's gone forever. Votes: 0

I'm not a militant atheist, just an atheist. In fact, in a largely atheist country like the UK I think it's a bit silly to be a militant atheist. Votes: 0

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief. Votes: 0

The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save. Votes: 0

The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face. Votes: 0

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system. Votes: 0

If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones. Votes: 0

There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves. Votes: 0

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying? Votes: 0

The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist. Votes: 0

I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me. Votes: 0

It is about time that, atheist or no, we call a spade a spade, and outed lies, and suspicious statements are placed against the backdrop of a linguistic litmus test. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism. Votes: 0

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world. Votes: 0

The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist. Votes: 0

The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself. Votes: 0

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence. Votes: 0

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly. Votes: 0

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it. Votes: 0

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker. Votes: 0

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people. Votes: 0

I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with. Votes: 0

If I do not personify God, you call me an atheist. But I do not personify God because I refuse to limit God to the boundaries of my imagination... or yours. Votes: 0

What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist. Votes: 0

I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions. Votes: 0

Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it? Votes: 0

"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God." Votes: 0

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring. Votes: 0

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. Votes: 0

The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated. Votes: 0

I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic. Votes: 0

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term; it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech. Votes: 0

The surname of an atheist is compound unfortunate plus being, therefore unfortunate-beings, making all atheists unfortunate beings because human beings are created by God and not products of big bang atoms undergoing evolution. Votes: 0

The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something. Votes: 0

You don't have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don't know—. Votes: 0

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious. Votes: 0

The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe. Votes: 0

I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer. Votes: 0

Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot. Votes: 0

I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state. Votes: 0

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness. Votes: 0

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat. Votes: 0

The more I read arguments for atheism, the more I am convinced it takes a very strong faith to be an atheist. And atheism seems to me the least reasonable of all faiths. Votes: 0

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies. Votes: 0

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God. Votes: 0

Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story. Votes: 0

If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted. Votes: 0

Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code. Votes: 0

I am against the word 'anti' because it's a little bit like 'atheist,' as compared to 'believer.' And an atheist is just as much of a religious man as the believer is. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God. Votes: 0

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has The Truth. To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant. Votes: 0

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history. Votes: 0

He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite. Votes: 0

Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in. Votes: 0

I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan. Votes: 0

From one end to the other I have identified with various forms of spirituality. I was a Jew, then a God-hater. I was an atheist, then a Christian, for which I was called a traitor. Votes: 0

I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say. Votes: 0

I don't mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn't tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better. Votes: 0

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion. Votes: 0

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.' Votes: 0

I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place. Votes: 0

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch. Votes: 0

I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me. Votes: 0

I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.' Votes: 0

I was hated, you know. I made no secret of the fact that I was an atheist. People told me there are no atheists in fox holes. That's nonsense. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)] Votes: 0