If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Atheism is less of an insult to God, than religion.
SANDEEP GOSWAMY Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Arguments for atheism can be divided into two main categories: those that dispute the existence of g...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color
MARK SCHNITZIUS Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistak...
EMMETT F. FIELDS Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
BILL GAEDE Atheism, the same than religion, can be cause of conviction or gregarism.
EZEQUIEL D'LEON MASIS There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god...
JOHN B. S. HALDANE A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism
DION FORTUNE Complaining is an insult to God.
MONICA JOHNSON Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced...
PENN JILLETTE It is an interesting view of atheism, as a sort of "crutch" for those who can't stand the reality of...
TOM STOPPARD If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this...
DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS 'Noah' is an insult to Bible-believing Christians, an insult to the character of Noah and, m...
KEN HAM God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, t...
FRANCIS BACON If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
STEVE ALLEN The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares no...
ERIC HOFFER The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. ...
MARIA MONTESSORI All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. I...
ULRICH BECK Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
WILHELM STEKEL There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
VANNA BONTA I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
ALBERT CAMUS When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delus...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not w...
EPICURUS If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Now he haunts me seldom: some fierce umbilical is broken,
I live with my own fragile hopes and ...
JAMES KAVANAUGH Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
DON HIRSCHBERG I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up o...
C.S. LEWIS If you say your God is bigger than mine, than you just show your religion in the name of God.
VIKRANT PARSAI If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There i...
MAHATMA GANDHI She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Ath...
ANNIE BESANT No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Ath...
ANNIE BESANT Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive...
ARISTOTLE ARISTOTLE A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive...
ARISTOTLE One cannot insult a religion whatever it is. To defend the dignity of one's religion does not mean o...
FOUAD ALAOUI The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than th...
ANNIE BESANT Indonesia is also a democracy that upholds freedom of expression, but such freedom cannot be used as...
YURI THAMRIN Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit ev...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it:...
TARSEM SINGH Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity...
CARL SAGAN There is not anything I know which hath done more mischief to Religion... than the disparaging of Re...
JOSEPH GLANVILL Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not univ...
KIM THúY He is using this as a joke. This is an insult coming from him. Why he chose to focus on the Black Ca...
LARRY MILLER Good religion teaches us about a good God and encourages us to be like Him to the people of the worl...
HAROLD J. DUARTE-BERNHARDT An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgiven than an insult
LORD CHESTERFIELD I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, in...
ALBERT EINSTEIN With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good peopl...
STEVEN WEINBERG 'Common Sense- God's Worst Enemy
CHARLIE JAMES If God made us all in his own image, then God is insane, insecure, genocidal, ignorant, disobedient,...
CHRISTOPHER FEBVRE God made me an atheist
ERNESTINE ROSE Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has
chosen not to accept it. They hav...
LEWIS N. ROE The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc...
LEWIS N. ROE If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible tha...
RICHARD DAWKINS Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
ISRAEL ZANGWILL Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness,
the only real religion.
ISRAEL ZANGWILL Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respe...
HAKEEM OLAJUWON ...when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE And we ask ourselves, if there is a God, how can this happen? Better to ask, if there is a God... mu...
LUCIEN LACROIX This history of the Pledge of Allegiance illustrates that the phrase 'under God' is a permissible ac...
MATHEW STAVER If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means t...
POPE FRANCIS Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
FRANCIS BACON SR. If I had a son I would never let him die for humanity. look how well it worked out last time.
JEFFREY FISCHER The religious man will constantly look for the proof of Heaven and Hell; while the atheist man will ...
C. JOYBELL C. Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have ...
VINCENT BUGLIOSI We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship t...
ROBERT WINSTON Those who say Islam is a warlike religion
must ask if Christianity has been as well.
WENDELL BERRY Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is ...
SERAPHIM ROSE If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a caus...
BERTRAND RUSSELL It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
SENECA It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it
SENECA [A true atheist is one who is willing to face the full consequences of what it means to say there is...
FREDERICK BUECHNER I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused p...
HAZEL SCOTT A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one ...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism at least...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an oppor...
PARKER PALMER Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?
TAMORA PIERCE Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to sugges...
RICHARD DAWKINS I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject athei...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI Religion can be likened as a hand pointing to the moon which is God. The hand navigates us the moon,...
ADE OKELARIN I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life ...
ALBERT CAMUS Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
FRANCIS BACON God loves an idle rainbow,
No less than laboring seas.
RALPH HODGSON There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, an...
ELIZABETH I Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religi...
ERNEST RENAN A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON I consider myself an atheist. My wife is Jewish. And I'm fine with my son being raised as a Jew....
PAUL GIAMATTI So, I said I thought the magazine was trying to make him a hero, but then later somebody might dig u...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there w...
FULTON J. SHEEN When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sens...
STEPHEN HAWKING I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian relig...
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