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Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The God Delusion (2006) (p. 40)
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Root of All Evil? (2006)
One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love — to serve the loved one without his knowing it — is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.
Simone Weil1909–1943Last Notebook (1942) p. 84
- Love
All thinking men are atheists.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 2In context
Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 1 “Explaining the Very Improbable” (p. 6)
- Science
There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.
Heywood Broun1888–1939“A New Preface to an Old Story”, Broun’s Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Letter to Richard Aldington (24 February 1927)
- Faith
Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
John Adams1735–1826Letter to John Quincy Adams (16 June 1816)
- Government
Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. VI
Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.
Annie Besant1847–1933Annie Besant: An Autobiography, p. 89
- Clever Jabs
Religion has two principal enemies, fanaticism and infidelity, or that which is called atheism. The first requires to be combated by reason and morality, the other by natural philosophy.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
- Religion
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana1863–1952Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.
Simone Weil1909–1943“Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine” as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 417
- Faith
- Religion
Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.
Simone Weil1909–1943“Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine” as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 417
- Religion
Every atheist is an idolater — unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.
Simone Weil1909–1943Last Notebook (1942) p. 308
- Religion