#atheists

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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Atheists and their fellow travelers point to Islamic terrorism as a wake-up call that we'd better abandon God or the biblical disasters attributed to him will pale in comparison to what we'll end up doing to ourselves. In other words, God may not be dead, but keeping him alive endangers the human race. ↗

— Richard Yancey

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan. ↗

— Rick Warren

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Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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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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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists. ↗

— Hu Shih

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