#atheism

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#atheist

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#the-poor #atheist

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#atheist #god #noremorse #atheist

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. ↗

— Mary Astell

#head #heart #seat

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. ↗

— Annie Besant

#brought #ever #glad #good #good news

Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#faith #fear #god #reason #religion

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#diversity #freedom #history #liberty #suffering

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#carrying #devastated #eternity #i #idea

On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communism #consumerism #materialism #experience

Countries with a high percentage of nonbelievers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, and healthiest nations on earth. When nations are ranked according to a human-development index, which measures such factors as life expectancy, literacy rates, and educational attainment, the five highest-ranked countries -- Norway, Sweden, Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands -- all have high degrees of nonbelief. Of the fifty countires at the bottom of the index, all are intensly religious. The nations with the highest homicide rates tend to be more religious; those with the greatest levels of gender equality are the least religious. These associations say nothing about whether atheism leads to positive social indicators or the other way around. But the idea that atheists are somehow less moral, honest, or trustworthy have been disproven by study after study. ↗

— Greg Graffin

#religion #education