Quotes by Atheist Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable. Barbara Smoker alternatives atheism atheist I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman. Barbara Walters sin-city equal-pay atheist Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. Baron de Montesquieu atheism atheist law If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men. Baron d'Holbach ignorance atheist men What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back to nature, to reality, to reason. He is a thinker who, having reflected on the nature of matter, its energy, properties and ways of acting, has no need of idealized powers or imaginary intelligences to explain the phenomena of the universe and the operations of nature. Baron d'Holbach atheist men reality All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. Baron d'Holbach atheism ignorance atheist Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all. Baron d'Holbach atheism atheist religion It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality. Baron d'Holbach atheist inspirational life If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them. Baron d'Holbach ignorance atheist knowledge All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God. Baron d'Holbach atheist children ideas The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason. Baron d'Holbach atheist race men These principles, universally recognized, are at fault when the question of the existence of God is considered; what has been said of Him is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man. Baron d'Holbach common-sense atheist men It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on to fury; if he has activity, it makes him a madman, who is frequently as cruel to himself, as he is dangerous and incommodious to others: if, on the contrary, he be phlegmatic or of a slothful habit, he becomes melancholy and is useless to society. Baron d'Holbach vanity atheist men Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible. Bart D. Ehrman atheist views believe Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery. Bede Griffiths rejection atheist challenges My parents were secular. I am an atheist. Ben Elton secular parent atheist 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. Ben Stein atheist country ideas My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese. Benjamin De Casseres atheist running philosophy Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. Benjamin Disraeli teach-a-man-to-fish atheist men Where knowledge ends, religion begins. Benjamin Disraeli atheism atheist religion «4567891011121314»