“O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.” LawHumanitySoundBornAtheismConditionsSickBoundsPositive AtheismVanityForbidden Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“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.” MenMindPersonsStatesSeemsFeltSoundInterestMoralWiseAtheismPolicyCitizensMoralityPositive AtheismContraryRidiculousIndifferenceMarchHostileInclinationDisadvantagesDespised Author:Baron d'Holbach
“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.” MenWantNeedsGivingFeelsShouldFirstsChildrenCharacterThreeParentSoundViewsMoralChristianityDoubtAtheismTrainingOrdinaryThirdsPositive AtheismBelieverPracticalsCommunismAlternativesSuggestionsJustifiedConcealedOrdinary Man Author:Margaret E. Knight
“"Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts, fowl, and fishes. To respond through touch, sight, smell, and sound to all things in nature - both organic and inorganic-to colors, shapes, and textures - to not only look at a blade of grass but to really see a blade of grass. These things, to me, are what life and living are all about. I would call it "Humanism."” ThinkingHumansLooksSoundAtheismColorShapesLife And LivingAll ThingsSightHumanismFishesPositive AtheismSmellGrassBeastBladesLiving ThingsTextureBlades Of GrassFowl Author:Jacob Lawrence
“Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.” ThinkingShouldMadeMatterSeemsSoundSimpleAtheism Book:The works of Christopher Marlowe Source: The works of Christopher Marlowe
“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.” DreamScienceNightReligionSoundReligiousAtheismTheoryEvolutionAtheistDrunkAll NightPhilosophy Of ReligionCreationismTheistScientific TheoryAnti ReligiousReligious PhilosophyPhilosophy And ReligionFunny AtheistAnti AtheistGreatest AtheistBeing DrunkCreationist Author:Isaac Asimov
“An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one. I can't help feeling that such a position, though logically sound, would have left one feeling pretty unsatisfied, and that although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” KnowsHas BeensMadeSaidI CanHelpingFeelingsMightLeftWaitingSoundAtheismDesignPositionComplexesAtheistCome UpFollowingPositive AtheismMade ItExplanationFulfilledMight Have BeenUnsatisfiedSelfish GeneHumeFeeling Pretty Author:Richard Dawkins
“Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.” TurnsBeliefSoundReligiousAtheismModernScientistAtheistPositive AtheismScience And ReligionExaminationIdentical Book:A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love