#theist

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#atheists #bunch #cannot #does #got

Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture. Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music. ↗

— Sam Harris

#reason #religion #beauty

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#care #dame #game #man #methodist

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

— Rick Warren

#atheists #europe #manhattan #number #outside

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#atheist #deny #faith #great #greater

I am a daylight atheist. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#atheist #daylight #i #i am

Thank God I'm an atheist. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#god #i #thank #thank god

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#atheist #combating #father #forms #his

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#civilized #humanists #longer #men #must

When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#atheist #christian #enemy #expect #go