#heist

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#life-and-living #religous #faith

I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#religion #life

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe. ↗

— Criss Jami

#atheism #atheist #beginning #belief #cause

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army. ↗

— A.E. Coppard

#atheist #atheists #men

In any modern society encouraging your child to cut himself is an unthinkable act, but only with religious belief becomes part of the culture, and demands respect. ↗

— Sean S. Kamali

#agnosticism #agnostics #anti-theism #atheism #atheist

He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Muhammad, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports. ↗

— Reverend B. Smith

#atheist #bodyguard #caesar #christian #divine

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#cats #atheist

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#atheist

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

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He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill. ↗

— Karen Chance

#pritkin #pythia #atheist