Best Positive Atheism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 10

“I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.”

Ifs Evil Church Attention Trouble Atheism Amount Property Positive Atheism Accumulation

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.”

Country Age Religious Moral Atheism Teaching Development Higher Positive Atheism

Book:The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods

Source: The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods

“There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.”

Has Beens Christianity Atheism Positive Atheism Doctrine Vedas

Author:Horace Greeley

“Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells me that this gift of reason, which they call god-given, may be the match that lights the fires of hell for all who dare to use it, since whatever is not of faith is sin.”

May Reason Use Light Christian Given Sin Animal Destiny Hell Fire Atheism Higher Dare Positive Atheism Homo Sapiens

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.”

Reading Atheism Atheist Positive Atheism Reading The Bible

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.”

Atheism Divine Ultimate Depth Positive Atheism Curse Profile Spleen

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel. "Tell no one" was often his command.”

Knows Kind Stills Light Jesus Saws Atheism Positive Atheism Monsters Command

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.”

“Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.”

Today Lord Share Atheism Fundamentals Brave Atheist Positive Atheism Invites Fundamentalism Residents Insisting Missouri Totems

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men in the wilderness, seems to me to be almost an archetypal image of human beings on their own, human beings making their own way, guiding themselves by the stars they can see - rather than by faith or prayer or invisible forces.”

Men Way Humans Seems Force Stars Prayer Human Beings Sea Atheism Positive Atheism Invisible Wilderness Melville

Author:Maxine Greene

“The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.”

Source: The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure

“All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.”

Has Beens Said Facts Reality Seems Atheism Events Positive Atheism Fourth Genuineness

Book:The Creed of Christendom: Its Foundations Contrasted with Its Superstructure

Source: The Creed of Christendom: Its Foundations Contrasted with Its Superstructure

“O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.”

Law Humanity Sound Born Atheism Conditions Sick Bounds Positive Atheism Vanity Forbidden

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.”

Ifs Way Made Easy Blood Atheism Delight Positive Atheism Easy Way

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.”

Men Certain Atheism Inspired Positive Atheism Compelled

Book:Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays

Source: Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays

“The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.”

Sin Atheism Originals Positive Atheism Disappear Theology Doctrine Original Sin

Author:Georgia Harkness

“The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.”

Country Atheism Tradition Constitution Sacred Majority Positive Atheism

Author:William Rainey Harper

“If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the "happy holiday" sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy day, then they are aiming at the wrong Target.”

“That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.”

Existence Atheism Positive Atheism Proof Miraculous Homage

Book:A child of the century

Source: A child of the century

“The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.”

Existence Gone Atheism Positive Atheism Proof Fallen Belonging Existence Of God Discredit Days Gone By

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and that is none at all ... let people be heretikes, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it apperteynes not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.”

People Lord Atheism Kings Catholic Jew Positive Atheism Our Lord Roman Catholic

Author:Thomas Helwys

“Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”

Atheism Adventure Judgment Claims Absolutes Errors Edges Positive Atheism Uncertainty Monstrous Unending

Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.”

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“"Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since it has often been used to blacken anyone with the slightest doubt about the teachings of religion.”

Used Belief Clear Doubt Atheism Teaching Complexes Atheist Positive Atheism Belief In God Usage

Book:Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists

Source: Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists

“"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."”

Mean Existence Atheism Atheist Positive Atheism Agnostic Doubtful Usage Existence Of God Knowledge Of God Huxley

Book:Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists

Source: Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists

“When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years of inhumanity, intolerance, and uncleanliness lie in the foul-smelling alleys... The amiable dreamer of Nazareth has only contributed to increasing the hatred... What superstition and fanaticism on every side!”

“A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair at the foot of the ambrosial tree, and a serpent entwined among the heavily-laden boughs, presenting to them some of the fruit from his mouth.”

Firsts Tree Feet Atheism Mouths India South Fruit Positive Atheism Drawing Temples Pairs Caves Columns Presenting Serpent Colonels Entwined

Author:Godfrey Higgins

“The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the Church of Christ by worldly ambition.”

Thinking Men Should Humans Helping Christ Church Atheism Protect Ambition Positive Atheism Our Time Folly Worldly Church Of Christ

Author:Hilary of Poitiers

“Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.”

Mind Atheism Positive Atheism Invisible Tales Superstitions

Book:Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

Source: Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil

“No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.”

Ends Facts Atheism Absolutes Positive Atheism Discourse

Book:The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750

Source: The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750

“Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.”

Men Causes Atheism Effects Draws Curiosity Positive Atheism Consideration

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.”

Sometimes Silence Atheism Argument Positive Atheism Consent Silence Is

Book:Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

“Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.”

Whole Atheism Atheist Positive Atheism Pills There Is No God Chewing There Being No God Subtle Atheist

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.”

People Looks Powerful Democracy Atheism Positive Atheism Orators

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.”

Different Used Passion Opinion Atheism Philosopher Positive Atheism Heresy Sects Epicurean

Book:The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Dialogue between a philosopher and a student of the common laws in England. Behemoth: The history of the causes of the civil wars of England. The whole art of rhetoric. The art of rhetoric, plainly set forth. The art of sophistry

Source: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Dialogue between a philosopher and a student of the common laws in England. Behemoth: The history of the causes of the civil wars of England. The whole art of rhetoric. The art of rhetoric, plainly set forth. The art of sophistry

“The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.”

Men Purpose Atheism Positive Atheism Suspicious

Book:Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

“Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.”

Men Belief Atheism Positive Atheism Immortality Grounded

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.”

World Atheism Positive Atheism Glad Holes Creeps

Book:The treatise on human nature and that on liberty and necessity. With a suppl. to which is prefixed an account of his life and writings by the editor [P. Mallet].

Source: The treatise on human nature and that on liberty and necessity. With a suppl. to which is prefixed an account of his life and writings by the editor [P. Mallet].

“The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.”

Knows Giving Seems Chance Known Impossible Atheism Positive Atheism Ignorant Daring Tempted Reservoirs

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to them ridiculous. Many persons have regarded it with indifference, because they have never felt its true disadvantages. But it is as a citizen that I attack it, because it seems to me harmful to the happiness of the state, hostile to the march of the mind of man, and contrary to sound morality, from which the interests of state policy can never be separated.”