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“But she was finding it increasingly easy to believe that God, if there was a God, and if it was remotely possible that any godlike being who could order the disposition of particles at the creation...”
“Atheism is the default position in any scientific inquiry, just as a-quarkism or a-neutrinoism was. That is, any entity has to earn its admission into a scientific account either via direct evidenc...”
“Every agnostic has a minister, Mike. Otherwise, they's be atheists.”
“If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic fits may force me to find less silly my impossibly silly position: that of God's slave; no, not ...”
“The idea of God was invented in the small hours of history by a scam who had genius; it somehow reeks too much of humanity, that idea, to make its azure origin plausible...”
“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 ef...”
“Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.”
“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbeliefcall it what you willthan any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, mot...”
“If you describe yourself as "Atheist," some people will say, "Don't you mean 'Agnostic'?" I have to reply that I really do mean Atheist. I really do not believe that there is a god - in fact I am c...”
“He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.”
“No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it hasbecome his interest that there should be none to call him to account.”
“What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down m...”
“My coming brought no profit to the sky,Nor does my going swell its glory;My two ears have never heard anyone that could say,Why I came here and why I will go away.”
“Theology: (15) Somebody made everything for some reason.”
“The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of others, and on t...”
“For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament...”
“I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.”
“The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we start at a neutral position of not knowing, we can't move away from it until we have proof or evi...”
“I'm agnostic. By definition, I'm unsure of what to believe in, but I'm also borderline-capable of believing in anything and everything, or nothing at all... and I want to believe in something.”
“We are both preachers. He preached the teaching of Jesus Christ, and I preached my philosophy.He asked me: Do you pray?No.Do you beseech God to forgive your trespasses?No.Do you not thank God for h...”
