56 quotes found
“If history has shown anything, it is that where there is a God, there is an institution trying to lock up that God in its lifeless structure of orthodoxy, in order to have authority over people and...”
“From the club of what atheist call false hope and false god (which offer solace to weak minds), atheist are calling you to their club of no god and no hope (which offers nothing in return. Join the...”
“As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by whic...”
“I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.”
“Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song? ”
“My lack of faith in God is not a dilapidated house.It does not need to be razed to the ground or burned down to cinders.I refuse to be the wounded woman on a crossthat you crucify with your disappr...”
“The argument against faith is all based upon the rigorous analysis of the scriptures, and not upon the objective observation of the actual individual sensation of faith. Historical experiences of t...”
“The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the Christian accuses the Agnostic of arrogance, and asks him how he has the imp...”
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because i...”
“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.")”
“A belief is not true because it is useful”
“A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that I be forgiven for anything I may have done or failed to d...”
“You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.”
“No text, being human creation, is free from flaws it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept their good elements and discard the bad ones.”
“Why would god allow the Holocaust to happen? If god made everything, why did he invent sin to trick us and then hold our sins against us? Why are there so many religions in the world if god created...”
“It really is more natural to believe a preternatural story, that deals with things we dont understand, than a natural story that contradicts things we do understand. Tell me that the great Mr Glads...”
“An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists or that He doesnt.”
“I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.”
“God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'--that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gend...”
“We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.”
