#atheism

Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all. ↗

— Therese Doucet

#faith #philosophy #religion #faith

But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood. ↗

— Erica Jong

#inspirational #inspirational

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#atheism #bible #religion #religion

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. ↗

— Bill Gates

#atheism #efficiency #religion #religion

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores. ↗

— James Clavell

#priests #religion #religion

God is a book I can no longer read. ↗

— Floriano Martins

#god #religion #religion

The greatest trick Christianity ever pulled was convincing the world that Satan exists. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#christianity-religion-atheism #deism #religion

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #atheist #christianity #death #god

I was perplexed by the failure of teachers at school to address what seemed the most urgent matter of all: the bewildering, stomach-churning insecurity of being alive. The standard subjects of history, geography, mathematics, and English seemed perversely designed to ignore the questions that really mattered. As soon as I had some inkling of what 'philosophy' meant, I was puzzled as to why we were not taught it. And my skepticism about religion only grew as I failed to see what the vicars and priests I encountered gained from their faith. They struck me either as insincere, pious, and aloof or just bumblingly good-natured. (p. 10) ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#buddhism #education #design

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#agnosticism #atheism #atheist #philosophy #equality