Top 1200 Founding Fathers Atheist Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.
It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.
Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.
Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.
That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.
Farmers are always conservative. They stick to what they have learned from their fathers and from their grandfathers. This is the same all over the globe.
And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.
Loving fathers give their children boundaries so they won't get hurt and can live with peace and purpose.
My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.
From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism--that have driven the state's economy and compelled its direction.
If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.
In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.
When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.
The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.
Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
I've been atheist since I became aware of the term, but my material is not all about religion - not by a long shot - and when I do address the topic, it is to point out where religiosity meets discrimination.
Thank you, but I'm afraid I can't accept your compliment. You see, I'm an atheist, so if I'm also God, that would mean that I don't believe in myself, and at this point in my life, I don't need the added insecurity.
Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.
Some people think it's a reality that black fathers don't take care of their children, but that's not true.
Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal, all different industries that seem to have nothing to do with each other.
The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is the conquest of the heart, the subjugation of the soul, the sanctifying of the flesh, the purifying and ennobling of the passions.
What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.
You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited.
Loving fathers give their children guidance on how to deal with all the hard things in life.
Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.
When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America.
Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.
I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.
When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.
No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.
I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.
I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.
Fathers teach their best lessons to their children
by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
I don't bad mouth them in front of my children. They have their own relationships with their fathers, which is amazing.
The atheist barista (who's obsessed with astrology) asked me, "So what's your sign?" I responded, "The sign of the cross." I think she spit in my coffee.
America needs more fathers taking an active role in their children's lives.
Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's life and celebrating what they did.
Palestinians are Christian, Muslims, atheist, Buddhist - you name it. And the majority I know have nothing against Judaism and everything against Israeli oppression.
Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 Commandments.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
