#atheism

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#god #knowledge #religion #science #the-universe

The human brain has the unique ability to doubt the reality presented to itself. To comprehend the dissonance between ideas and the truth of the surrounding world. God knows this, and it infuriates him. It terrifies him. ↗

— Autumn Christian

#atheism #god #humanity #religion #the-crooked-god-machine

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#god #religion #twitter #religion

Have you ever wondered why there are so many Gods and so many religions? It is because in the Land of the Gods, there is not a single hand to guide the Gods on a proper path. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#god #guidance #religion

When I finally applied logic to Religion that was when I quit paying after life insurance and quit going ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#atheism #atheist #religion #tithing #religion

Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers. ↗

— Mario Stinger

#atheism #fear #religion #unknown #religion

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#irreligion #philosophy-religion #religion

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#religion #superstition #religion

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#clergy #failure #religion #life

The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent. ↗

— Stifyn Emrys

#philosophy #religion #religion