Jesus was the only one that ever raised the dead and he shouldn’t have done it. He’s thrown everything off balance. If he did what he said, then it’s nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow him, and if he didn’t, then it’s nothing for you to do but enjoy the [...]
Archive for the ‘Atheism’ Category
Flannery O’Connor
Posted in Atheism, Autonomy, Belief, Death, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Resurrection on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
C.S. Lewis
Posted in Atheism, Belief, Incarnation, Jesus Christ, Rationalism, Reason, Skepticism on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said [...]
Carl Sagan
Posted in Atheism, Individualism, Rationalism, Reason, Skepticism on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. (Carl Sagan [1934-1996], was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted in Atheism, Autonomy, Culture, Imagination, Pantheism on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am light, now I fly, now I see myself beneath myself, now a god dances through me. (Friedrich Nietzsche [1844–1900], German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture).
Arthur C. Clarke
Posted in Atheism, Belief, Creator, Faith, God, Humanity, Image of God, Individualism, Mankind, Rationalism, Reason, Searching, Skepticism, Spirituality, Westernism on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. (Arthur C. Clarke – Atheist and British science fiction author, most famous for 2001: A Space Odyssey. [1917-2008])
Bertrand Russell
Posted in Atheism, Belief, Faith, God, Skepticism on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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. (Bertrand Russell – Atheist, Philosopher and writer [1872-1970])
George H. Smith
Posted in Atheism, Belief, Faith, God, Rationalism, Skepticism on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Explicit atheism is the consequence of a commitment to rationality – the conviction that man’s mind is fully competent to know the facts of reality…I will not accept the existence of God on faith because I reject faith as a valid cognitive procedure…I will not accept anything on faith. (George H. Smith, Atheism: The Case [...]
Richard Dawkins
Posted in Atheism, Creation, Science on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To be sure, we do need some kind of explanation for the origin of all things. Physicists and cosmologists are hard at work on the problem. But whatever the answer – a random quantum fluctuation or a Hawking/Penrose singularity or whatever we end up calling it – it will be simple. … The first cause [...]
Robert Ingersoll
Posted in Atheism, Christmas on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The good part of Christmas is not always Christian – it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural. (Robert Ingersoll, atheist)