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My coming brought no profit to the sky,Nor does my going swell its glory;My two ears have never hear...

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You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have t...

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If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) a...

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A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care...

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Roger ZelaznyCreatures of Light and Darkness

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial expla...

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It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, dee...

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When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between et...

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What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody'...

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We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical e...

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The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that g...

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Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war...

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What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidenc...

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If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large...

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The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to belie...

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I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and pref...

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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Question with boldness even the existence of aGod; because, if there be one, he must more approve of...

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To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. Tosay that the human soul, angels, god, are...

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The idea of God was invented in the small hours of history by a scam who had genius; it somehow reek...

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There is yet another reason why I cannot, nor wish to, believe in God: the fairy tale about him is n...

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If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic...

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Not only do I not know what I believe, but also I cannot know for sure that I believe. How can I def...

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William Barrett (philosopher)The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than...

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We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a...

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I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who ...

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The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore ...

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Annie BesantAnnie Besant: An Autobiography

As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to d...

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In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happe...

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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I ...

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Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element i...

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C. S. LewisSeeing Eye and Other Selected Essays from Christian Reflections

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence ag...

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Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever t...

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The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ours...

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I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who wo...

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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend t...

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He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many peo...

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Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?""I give.""...

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As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the ...

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If you describe yourself as "Atheist," some people will say, "Don't you mean 'Agnostic'?" I have to ...

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But she was finding it increasingly easy to believe that God, if there was a God, and if it was remo...

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Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosi...

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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belo...

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...what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?""What of it?""Well,...

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Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily p...

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...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next a...

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We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs ...

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If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics whi...

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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a...

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I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum phys...

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No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it hasbecome his interest tha...

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As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just ...

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Michael PalinDiaries 1969-1979: The Python Years