Items tagged as 'Atheism'

Items tagged as 'Atheism'

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The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and
Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regu
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.
Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt.
Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
Not thinking critically, I assumed that the "successful" prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of p
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

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