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Atheists are pious people. -- Max Stirner
Atheists are not Americans. -- George H. W. Bush
Atheists think the devil is just a silly as God is. -- Hemant Mehta
The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere. -- Craig Groeschel
Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches. -- George Herbert
Atheists does not believe in God. God also does not believe in Atheists -- David Asscherick
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. -- C. S. Lewis
Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character? -- Dan Barker
Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy. -- Julian Baggini
Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books. -- Hemant Mehta
Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office. -- Richard Dawkins
Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up. -- Penn Jillette
Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject. -- Robert Todd Carroll
In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists. -- Jefferson Smith
Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water. -- Ray Comfort
Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not. -- Michael Gerson
If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight. -- Tom Flynn
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. -- Ricky Gervais
Atheists tend to read only each otherâ??s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting. -- Edward Feser
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country. -- Al Gore
Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to. -- Richard Dawkins
I see Atheists are fighting and killing each other again, over who doesn't believe in any God the most. Oh, no..wait.. that never happens. -- Ricky Gervais
Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good. -- Pope John Paul II
I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists]. -- John Lennox
Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times. -- Benjamin Whichcote
If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists. -- George Washington
Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it. -- Christopher Hitchens
Atheists are not the enemy; the real enemy knows Jesus Christ. Satan and all false prophets know very well that Jesus came from heaven, but still reject him. Matthew 10:36 -- Felix Wantang
Christian families are under attack in America! The Communists, Masons, Atheists, Humanists, Evolutionists, and other Godless sickos want to destroy the family. Parents beware; the government wants your child! -- Lester Roloff
Christians and Jews don't believe in Allah or Brahma. Hindus don't believe in Yahweh or Allah. Muslims don't believe in Brahma or Yahweh. Atheists agree with all of them. -- Mark Thomas
For me, equal citizenship for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists and Agnostics is an indisputable principle. Whoever you are, you should get the same rights with no discussion and no compromise. -- Tariq Ramadan
Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear. -- Alexander Pope
Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right. -- Julian Baggini
As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all. -- Barbara Smoker
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society -- Michael Novak
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society. -- Michael Novak
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship -- Jonathan Haidt
Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion. -- William Jennings Bryan
The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to-- ironically-fait h! -- Ravi Zacharias
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists, like the painting experts hated the painter, hate God because He does exist -- Ray Comfort
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap. -- Yann Martel
Atheists say no one can prove the existence of God but I say no one can disprove that God exists I see God in everything I feel his presence everywhere to me I know that he exists. -- Shane Harper
Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him. -- Charles Bradlaugh
Atheists anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it. -- Greta Christina
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Atheists are like wild feral dogs wih no master. But Christians are like loving dogs with a giving and loving master. Domesticated dogs will love you always, but Feral wild dogs HAVE to be put down. they are a danger to us all. -- Roger Bacon
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science. -- Noam Chomsky
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. -- Charles de Secondat
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. -- Charles de Secondat
Atheism has become a major threat to the church. New Atheists tend to be articulate and belligerent. They are aggressively engaging in "atheist evangelism," determined to stamp out every vestige of belief in God, which they insist is not only "stupid" but "wicked." -- Dave Hunt
I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world. -- C. S. Lewis
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. -- Ian Mcewan
Atheists often denounce Christianity as harsh and negative. But in reality it offers a much more positive view of the human person than any competing religion or worldview. It is so appealing that adherents of other worldviews keep free-loading the parts they like best. -- Nancy Pearcey
Those who lack administration refuse codes, rules and laws. And those who refuse codes, rules and laws are considered delinquent. Delinquency is one of the children of mental disorders. While religion is set of codes, rules and laws; so those denying religion are psychotic. Atheists are psychotic. -- Junaid e Mustafa
Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow. -- Norman Geisler
Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that. -- George H. W. Bush
The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before. -- Lee Strobel
The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death. -- Karl Pilkington
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. -- Dennis Prager
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. -- Richard Dawkins
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. -- Ernestine Rose
I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do. -- Bjork
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists. -- Richard Dawkins
If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds. -- Tariq Ramadan
The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone! -- Pope Francis
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers. -- Alan Lightman
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists. -- William Jennings Bryan
I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus. -- Kanye West
There are people who try to get atheists to form a sort of atheist church and have atheist community singsongs and things. I don't see the need for that, but if people want to do it, why shouldn't they? -- Richard Dawkins
I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious. -- Patton Oswalt
I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment. -- Adam Hamilton
I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn't create the Wiki page, others did, and I'm flattered that people cared enough about my life to assemble it - and it said, 'Neil deGrasse is an atheist.' -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious. -- Patton Oswalt
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available. -- Sam Harris
The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time. -- Tariq Ramadan
I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong. -- William A. Dembski
There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. -- Peter Steele
I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I don't believe in atheists. -- Neal Boortz
All thinking men are atheists. -- Ernest Hemingway
Agnostics are just atheists without balls. -- Stephen Colbert
Theists and atheists are equally religious. -- Kedar Joshi
Great Hypocrites are the real atheists. -- Francis Bacon
There are no atheists in the foxholes. -- William Thomas Cummings
There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes. -- Erica Jong
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics. -- Carlos Fuentes
There are no atheists in the foxhole. -- Ernie Pyle
All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle. -- Stefan Molyneux
Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare. -- James Cook
A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion. -- Honore de Balzac
Only atheists attempt to comprehend god with their mind. -- Nicolaus Zinzendorf
On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. -- Terry Pratchett
There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan... -- Douglas MacArthur
The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith. -- Mitt Romney
If there were no God, there would be no atheists. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm against anything atheists represent because I believe in God. -- Alvin Holmes
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind. -- John Dryden
The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them. -- Dale Ahlquist
Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed. -- Dorothy Day
My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists. -- Barack Obama
We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.... -- Mikhail Bakunin
Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve -- Alasdair MacIntyre
We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings. -- Roy Hattersley
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith. -- Andrew Schneider
I made my daughter read the whole. That's how you make atheists. -- David Silverman
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists. -- Mike Birbiglia
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity -- Voltaire
There are atheists, and I love them. In fact, I died for them. -- Frank Turek
The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan. -- Rick Warren
My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.' -- Barbara Ehrenreich
There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises. -- Paul Krugman
Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe. -- Ray Comfort
Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. -- Steven Weinberg
You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then. -- Dolly Parton
Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists. -- Malcolm Muggeridge

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