#atheism

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche? ↗

— John Fante

#god #nietzsche #atheist

The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. ↗

— Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri

#intelligence #religion #world #intelligence

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#amount #atheism #atheist #huge #i

Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature. ↗

— Emmett F. Fields

#misattributed-to-carl-sagan #religion #attitude

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God. (132) ↗

— Ann Hood

#atheism #beauty #belief #faith #god

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#christianity #hell #morality #religion #age

Atheists’ anger doesn’t prove that we’re selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We’re angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it. ↗

— Greta Christina

#atheism #anger

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange. ↗

— Bruce Robinson

#architecture #atheism #buildings #churches #religion

I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#atheism-and-attitude #bbc #cancer #death #attitude

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#death #inspirational #life #beauty