#theism

How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it? ↗

— Pete Hautman

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To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed ↗

— Bō Jinn

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The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it. ↗

— Ruth Hurmence Green

#naturalism #religion #nature

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky. ↗

— Anne Rice

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Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout. ↗

— Andy Rooney

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Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been speakers and writers who embody Einstein's injunction to 'remember your humanity and forget the rest.' It would be immodest to claim membership in this fraternity/sorority, but I hope not to have done anything to outrage it. Despite the idiotic sneer that such principles are 'fashionable,' it is always the ideas of secularism, libertarianism, internationalism, and solidarity that stand in need of reaffirmation. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions. ↗

— Karl Marx

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You do not have to worhip god to be good and you certainly do not have to be good to worship god. ↗

— Chris Decker

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No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself of its absurdity. ↗

— Jeffrey Lang

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My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

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