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“Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.”
“I am an atheist but I promise whenever there is complete freedom of religion I would worship you as my private and individual God.”
“People consider Islam as the best religion of world; I wonder if best of them is that much worse, I am really proud of being an Atheist.”
“I am scared of the day, when they turn atheism into another religion for controlling masses.”
“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly d...”
“The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesnt. Its not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you cant have your own facts.”
“Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesnt know. It bases its conclusions ...”
“Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, ...”
“As all men are touched by Gods love, so all are also touched by the desire for His intimacy. No one escapes this longing; we are all kings in exile, miserable without the Infinite. Those who reject...”
“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 paintin...”
“When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little...”
“Catholicism - all the perversions of Christianity - is not a faith of love. It is a faith of fear. Obey, be good, toe the line, and heaven is yours, the first prize in the lottery of eternity. Diso...”
“Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.”
“Every morning I wake up and thank God that I don't believe in him.”
“You may only get this one life but lived free of submissive reverence that is still a thing of rampant beauty.”
“For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.”
“Billions of years ago God was creating universes and life; thousands of years ago he was creating angry floods, sin-saving human sacrifices and audible burning bushes. Today he occasionally appears...”
“Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upo...”
“In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I point...”
“There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes...”
