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Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb

Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it wasn't science that compelled him to accept a materialistic explanation of the universe. It was an a priori materialism.

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.

Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

Someone tells us that God loves us as a father loves his children. We are reassured. But then something awful happens. Some qualification is made.... We are reassured again. But then perhaps we ask: what is this assurance of God's (appropriately qualified) love worth, what is this apparent guarantee really a guarantee against? Just what would have to happen not merely (morally and wrongly) to tempt but also (logically and rightly) to entitle us to say "God does not love us" or even "God does not exist"?

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a mouth large enough to swallow any church, and from that time forward the religious people will be citing that remark of the politician to substantiate the inspiration of the Scriptures.

Some ... sexist evil probably predates religion and can be ascribed to our biology, but there is no question that religion promulgates and renders sacrosanct attitudes toward women that would be unseemly in a brachiating ape.

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.

Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God smaller than he must be assumed. When he stated that these laws hold, then they hold, and he wouldn't make exceptions. This is too human an idea. Humans do such things, but not God.

Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.

Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah.

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

So much wrong could religion induce.

So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to identify with Someone above the ground, Someone who seemed to feel the same, Someone prepared to lead the way, with Someone who would die for me.

Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste.

Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia should be commended for acknowledging that his views are so strong that - should the Pledge case reach the Supreme Court - he wouldn't be able to maintain the requisite impartiality.

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.

That she does not crouch today where St Paul tried to bind her, she owes to the men who are grand and brave enough to ignore St Paul, and rise superior to his God.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

That utterance of Jesus, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's," is one of the most revolutionary and history-making utterances that ever fell from those lips divine. That utterance, once and for all, marked the divorcement of church and state. It marked a new era for the creeds and deeds of men.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.