#atheist

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces. ↗

— Melissa Auf der Maur

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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. ↗

— George Orwell

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Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

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It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic. ↗

— Pat Buckley

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Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

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However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don't believe [...]. No atheist is principally that. What we'd want to call ourselves is humanist or materialist, or biologist or linguist, or for that matter socialist, because one or more of these, or something else again, is what we do and think and are. We have 'purely and simply finished with God', to adapt a phrase of Engels's. ↗

— David Craig

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