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“In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.”

World Said Lasts Atheism Subjects Breaths Positive Atheism Superstitions

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.”

Soul Atheism Terrible Positive Atheism Deities Armor Truth And Beauty

Author:Edgar Lee Masters

“An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage.”

“We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.”

“There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its truth, but to its definiteness. Incapable of either admitting the existence of contrary judgments or of suspending their own, they supply the place of knowledge by turning other men's conjectures into dogmas.”

Men Needs Feels Believe Values Belief Existence Atheism Judgment Positive Atheism Contrary Dogma Incapable Imperatives Admitting Conjecture

Author:C. E. M. Joad

“All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”

Belief Atheism Argument Positive Atheism Paranormal Undecided

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if they knew of him at all, knew of him only as the Nazarene peasant - the man Jesus. Such was Abraham Lincoln, the tender prophet of the gospel of good will upon earth.”

Ifs Men Earth Jesus Christ Accepting Virtue Atheism Fashion He Man Jesus Christ Positive Atheism Prophet Miraculous Good Will Peasants Abraham Nazarene

Author:Jenkin Lloyd Jones

“I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a secularist should wish to do is to act like a religion, with its rigid hierarchies, its suppression of divergent opinion, and, above all, its ruthless attempts (now mercifully inhibited by laws) to outlaw "heresy" by brute force. Opinions must be changed, one at a time if necessary, but if there are those who wish to persist in religious belief, they should certainly be allowed to do so.”

“The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.”

Needs Should Hands Used Religious Attention Issues Atheism Subjects Atheist Positive Atheism Debate Meaningful Agnostic Probability Pious Accusation Immorality Falsity Improbability

Author:S. T. Joshi

“Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.”

Heart Blood Atheism Broken Fine Positive Atheism Damn Resurrection Pumps Gallons Fine Day

Book:The Best of James Joyce

Source: The Best of James Joyce

“And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.”

Father Jesus Atheism Jew Positive Atheism Like Me

Author:James Joyce

“I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul.”

Doe Soul Atheism Positive Atheism Tyranny Palaces

Book:Critical Writings

Source: Critical Writings

“I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life, so I put it in the category of things I can't worry about.”

Thinking I Can Worry Atheism Positive Atheism Categories Relevant Irrelevant God Exists Whether God Exists

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.”

Belief Fun Atheism Becoming Angel Climate Positive Atheism Burning Halls Flags Guardian Commonplace Legion Guardian Angel Creationism

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.”

Children Heaven Atheism Angel Positive Atheism Publishers Guardian Inner Child Guardian Angel

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.”

Should Matter Moral Virtue Atheism Effects Policy Habit Intellectual Concern Concerned Positive Atheism Inevitable Discouraging Public Policy Instill

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which is what makes the books so amusing. In matter-of-fact, authoritative tones, the authors tell us how plants and human beings exchange energy - or they describe what angels look like, whether or how they're sexed, how they communicate with human beings, and how they differ from ghosts. Readers might be expected to wonder, How do they know?”

“Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.”

Reason Character Order Answers Teacher Atheism Taught Judging Approach Positive Atheism Witness Pupils

Book:Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

Source: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

“Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.”

Thinking Men Able Order Religious Moral Atheism Mere Positive Atheism Folly Acceptable Superstitions

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Reason can never prove the existence of God.”

Reason Existence Atheism Prove Positive Atheism Existence Of God

Author:Immanuel Kant

“The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.”

Stills Feelings Light Might Would Be Space Imagine Air Atheism Easier Empty Positive Atheism Resistance Flight Imagine That Dove Empty Space Cleaving

Book:Kant

Source: Kant

“Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.”

Want Doe Enemy Support Atheism Anxiety Perception Negative Aspect Guilt Oneself Positive Atheism Acknowledge Characteristics Recalls Stereotype Paranoia Selective

Author:Sam Keen

“Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from which all the images of the enemy are created. By studying the logic of paranoia, we can see why certain archetypes of the enemy must necessarily recur, no matter what the historical circumstances.”

Persons War Matter Form Certain Enemy Study Atheism Circumstances Members Normal Logic No Matter What Historical Positive Atheism Paranoia Archetype Pathology

Author:Sam Keen

“If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.”

Ifs World Hands Evil Moral Enemy Blood Atheism Modern Clean Killing Positive Atheism Modern World Incarnation Qualms Qualms About

Author:Sam Keen

“This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.”

People Mind Believe Names Belief Left Atheism Dangerous Tvs Behavior Killing Everyday Positive Atheism Believer Bombs Fundamentalist Belief In God Psychotic Dogmatic

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you - like me.”

Needs Use Problem Choices Strong Born Atheism Blind Positive Atheism Guides Like Me Dumb Deaf Deaf And Blind

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.”

Ifs Want Soul Heaven Atheism Judging Broken Positive Atheism Heal Your Soul

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to identify with Someone above the ground, Someone who seemed to feel the same, Someone prepared to lead the way, with Someone who would die for me.”

Way Feels Dies Strong Causes Voice Atheism Standing Prepared Crowds Positive Atheism Loud

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life”

Atheism Positive Atheism

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature or where people are deeply divided about whether it is... Americans are plainly and persistently divided about abortion and the fiat of government cannot settle the issue as a matter of conscience or of conduct.”

People Should Believe Matter Government I Believe Religious Decision Views Issues Atheism Authority Conscience Positive Atheism Witness Settling Abortion Divided

Author:Edward Kennedy

“If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.”

Ifs Way Action Church Responsibility Atheism Influence Constitution Positive Atheism Servant Affected Public Servants

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Voters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit the candidates to a religious test is unfair enough - to apply it to the voters is divisive, degrading and wholly unwarranted.”

Mind Reason Enough Religious Atheism Tests Catholic Jew Positive Atheism Candidates Voters Submit Diverse Unfair Good And Bad Protestants Degrading

Author:John F. Kennedy

“I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection.”

Firsts Looks President Religious Liberty Atheism Tests Constitution Positive Atheism Favors Guarantees Articles Amendments First Amendment Religious Liberty

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?”

People Way Secret Wonder Atheism Protect Positive Atheism Best Way Minimum Penetration

Author:George F. Kennan

“In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.”

Reason Philosophy Atheism Authority Positive Atheism Theology

Author:Johannes Kepler

“I am not a spokesperson for the church and the church is not a spokesperson for the United States of America.”

States Running America President Church United United States Atheism Constitution Positive Atheism Separation United States Of America Strict Church And State Separation Of Church And State

Author:John F. Kerry

“Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.”

Atheism Victory Promise Positive Atheism Despite Inevitable Bliss Heavenly Solace Seductive Hypocritical

Author:Jack Kevorkian

“Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.”

Body Fall Jesus Atheism Flow Crosses Died Positive Atheism Thrown Abandon Logical Falling Down Eleven

Author:Daniil Kharms

“Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.”

World Two Atheism Mouths Saint Positive Atheism Foolish Dust Prophet Sage Scorn Thrust Two Worlds

Author:Omar Khayyam

“The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.”

Stories Sleep Atheism Return Rose Positive Atheism Prophet Revelations Comrade

Book:Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

Source: Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition

“Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.”

Atheism Fool Rewards Positive Atheism

Book:The Sufistic Quatrains

Source: The Sufistic Quatrains

“Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.”

Christianity Atheism Demand Intellect Positive Atheism Crucifixion

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.”

Religious Moral Atheism Positive Atheism Comic Melancholy Doubters Rustic

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.”

Trying Use Force Virtue Atheism Hero Destruction Metaphor Jew Positive Atheism Profession Bars Irrational

Author:Florence King

“Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.”

Ifs Atheism Teaching Bears Ethics Weakness Weak Positive Atheism Ethical Tied Dogma Examination Inventor Examining Weakening Tied Up

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the Church and the Establishment, Scientific Humanism is attempting to do just that.”

Men Way Mind Today Strong Church Atheism Humanism Positive Atheism Best Way Opposition Establishment Behaviour Attempting Enlightening

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.”

Today Numbers Half Moral Millions Atheism Source Intellectual Positive Atheism Convinced Believer Frank Discomfort Large Numbers Unbelievers

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.”

Men Christian Belief Difficult Sides Views Atheism Ordinary Casts Positive Atheism Orthodox Ordinary Man

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education of children is much too important a matter to be built on such foundations.”

Trying Children Important Matter Christian Belief Mistake Moral Atheism Training Built Bases Foundation Positive Atheism Moral Education

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not be stifled or concealed; second, that there is no ground for the view that Christianity is the only alternative to communism, or that there can be no sound character training that is not based on religion; and, third, I want to make some practical suggestions to the parents who are not believers, on what they should tell the children about God, and what sort of moral training they should give them.”

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