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After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's Go...

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There is no higher authority.

Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmo...

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Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the ob...

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Sam HarrisLetter to a Christian Nation

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

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Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

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Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

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Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

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Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

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Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

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Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

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Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have so...

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...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must ...

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I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni...

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Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and pref...

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No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god.""Therefore It Is A Religious Posi...

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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner,...

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...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, h...

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Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggl...

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Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or...

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Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn't like m...

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I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, in...

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Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

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Andrew CarnegieThe Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

As a historian, I confess to a certain amusement when I hear the Judeo-Christian tradition praised a...

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As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to d...

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The centre of me is always and eternally in terrible pain ... A searching for something beyond what ...

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I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livabl...

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Shallan’s mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an od...

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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it give...

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It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created...

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By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence ag...

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Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we cou...

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If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist...

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I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stri...

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Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, bu...

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Charles BradlaughThe Freethinker's Text-Book: Man: Whence and How? Religion: What and Why?

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

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Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful tha...

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[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

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Christopher Hitchensgod is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and re...

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Christopher Hitchensgod is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for s...

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Christopher Hitchensgod is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decim...

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Christopher Hitchensgod is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

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Now, I don't believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. ...

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Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment comp...

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The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. T...

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I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that...

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I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the cul...

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I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the ...

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I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the ...

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I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of t...

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If you describe yourself as "Atheist," some people will say, "Don't you mean 'Agnostic'?" I have to ...

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[When asked about his thoughts on gods]I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a st...

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Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punis...

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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares no...

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Eric HofferThe True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. ...

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By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. ...

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I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without know...

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Frederick BuechnerBeyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci,...

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In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture,...

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Georges BizetThe Pearl Fishers: Vocal Score (French

My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...

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To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perce...

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We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by sugge...

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H. P. LovecraftAgainst Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

I am an atheist.

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Hans BetheThe Voice Of Genius: Conversations With Nobel Scientists And Other Luminaries

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

There is nothing like being told to go fuck yourself by the same person who was, only days before, p...

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Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

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I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and y...

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I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when ...

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief.(Conversations pg 96)

I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief....And supposedly 95% of Americans say they believe in...

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I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily ...

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Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if ...

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I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpar...

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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more ...

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If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a p...

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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great tru...

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But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the a...

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[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece...

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I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind t...

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If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drin...

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Khaled HosseiniThe Kite Runner: A Portrait of the Marc Forster Film

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophica...

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