People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.
I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.
I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.
If atheism is a religion, then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour.
To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.
We are weak little Davids. But we are stronger than the Goliath of atheism, because God is on our side. The truth belongs to us.
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
I think that if anyone bothered to take a survey, they would find a sharp decline in atheism during the winters in Cleveland, Ohio.
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.
Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.
Enthusiasm is contagious - so is a lack of it. Joyless Christians are a greater assault on the gospel than atheism.
I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.
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.
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality.
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.
Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.
Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded
But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.
I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
Skepticism is my nature, freethought is my methodology, agnosticism is my conclusion after 25 years of being in the ministry, and atheism is my opinion.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.
Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.
I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.
The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.
It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.'
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
It's all about secular unionism, the advancement of atheism, which they even tried to create in this law - Democrats did - an atheistic chaplaincy.
For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.
From my early 20s on, I would waver between atheism and agnosticism, never coming close to considering that God could be real.
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