Best sacred & positive-atheism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free us from their impertinent solicitations. I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument ... which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred and profane.”

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

“An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.”

People Body Individual Belief Social Groups Atheism Hero Sacred Positive Atheism Ideology Defined Documents Identifying Social Groups

Author:Robert E Lane

“Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience.”

People Loses Attitude Atheism Judgment Conscience Sacred Humble Positive Atheism Knees Declaration Powerless Declaring Bending

Book:The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority

Source: The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority

“God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.”

God Romance Sacred Positive Atheism Attractive Testament Old Testament Hyde

Book:Mark Twain's notebook

Source: Mark Twain's notebook

“Conscience is the most sacred of all property.”

Religious Liberty Evolution Conscience Sacred Property Positive Atheism Federalist Federalist Papers Religious Truth

Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836

“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.”

Government Justice Duty Citizens Equal Sacred Positive Atheism Taxation Inalienable Rights Impartial Justice

Book:Correspondence

Source: Correspondence

“The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.”

Reality Age Atheism Illusion Essence Originals Sacred Appearance Positive Atheism These Days Fancy Copies Profane

Book:The essence of Christianity

Source: The essence of Christianity

“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.”

Men May Atheism Comfortable Gains Sacred Conviction Positive Atheism Firm Falsehood

Book:Atheism: The Case Against God

Source: Atheism: The Case Against God

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