Choosing comfort over knowledge is a sign of a weak mind..
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
(n.) The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.
(n.) Godlessness.
The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith.
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence...
So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because...
A cult is a religion with no political power.
There is yet another reason why I cannot, nor wish to, believe in God: the fairy tale about him is not really mine, it belongs to strangers, to all men; it is soaked through by the evil-smelling efflu...
God endlessly fails to extend his blessings. That is because he no longer sits on the throne.
Jesus was crucified for doing nothingAnd God is worshiped for even less.
It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting.
Our atheist thoughts go out to his family following their loss.
I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure.
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)]
It was important not to offend against the laws of magic. If a woman left you it was because you did not cast the right spell over her, or else because someone else cast a stronger enchantment than yo...
As a historian, I confess to a certain amusement when I hear the Judeo-Christian tradition praised as the source of our concern for human rights. In fact, the great religious ages were notable for the...
Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.
I don't want to believe. I want to know.
Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.
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.
By night an atheist half believes in God.