#theism

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#atheism #god #nature #pantheism #religion

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #atheism

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

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If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses. ↗

— John C. Wright

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The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#feminism #atheism

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference. ↗

— Ravi Zacharias

#relativism #atheism

Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests ↗

— Osho

#sex-appeal #atheism

So much enthusiasm about the non-existence of God is somewhat bewildering, as no one appears to be nearly as excited about a similar absence of belief in unicorns, vampires, werewolves, astrology, nation-building, or the Labor Theory of Value. Nor is anyone dedicating much of their time to writing books and giving speeches at universities and conferences with the avowed goal of convincing others not to believe in them either. ↗

— Vox Day

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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman... I have been traveling over the old world during the last few years and have found new food for thought. What power is it that makes the Hindoo woman burn herself upon the funeral pyre of her husband? Her religion. What holds the Turkish woman in the harem? Her religion. By what power do the Mormons perpetuate their system of polygamy? By their religion/ Man, of himself, could not do this; but when he declares, 'Thus saith the Lord,' of course he can do it. So long as ministers stand up and tell us Christ is the head of the church, so is man the head of woman, how are we to break the chains which have held women down through the ages? You Christian women look at the Hindoo, the Turkish, the Mormon women, and wonder how they can be held in such bondage... Now I ask you if our religion teaches the dignity of woman? It teaches us the abominable idea of the sixth century--Augustine's idea--that motherhood is a curse; that woman is the author of sin, and is most corrupt. Can we ever cultivate any proper sense of self-respect as long as women take such sentiments from the mouths of the priesthood? ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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