A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.
A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.
I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.
The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.
From our nation's founding to the Civil Rights movement, Virginians have always stood up to fight for their most foundational right - a voice in our government.
You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.
Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.
Fathers, for the first time, we have no clue what we're doing. I had no idea when I became a father.
Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.
No one expects this nation to become a theocracy, where Christianity is the only value, but we do indeed say that the essential values and founding principles of the nation should not be ignored.
She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.
I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.
The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.
My dad has dementia, so I monitor my own memory in a way that other people may not. As an atheist, I don't believe in an afterlife so I feel I need to fit in as much as I can while I'm here.
The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.
Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.
A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.
The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
If we can just get young people to do the same as their fathers did, that is, wear condoms
Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.
It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father.
We talk about building young men so they can be productive husbands, fathers and citizens.
My father loves his country and is ready to lead it. In my fathers gut: integrity.
For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.
My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.
Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.
I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.
Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.
Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way.
Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.
Ask any venture capitalist, and they will tell you that they consider the experience and completeness of the founding team to be a more important factor in their investment decision than the technology that is being built.
Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach.
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.
Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.
The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.
I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.
Most pro bodybuilders have bad relationships with their fathers. We want to prove something.
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