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As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner.

A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!

Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey Burbidge, of the University of California at San Diego, complains that his fellow astronomers are rushing off to join 'the First Church of Christ of the Big Bang.'

Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.

Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but the falsifiability of a system is to be taken as a criterion of demarcation... It must be possible for an empirical or scientific system to be refuted by experience.

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.

Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

Atheism is spreading like wildfire.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being... We attack not a person but a belief, not a binge but an idea, not a fact but a fancy.

Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.

Atheism has no room for human rights.

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.

Atheism is easy in fair weather.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.

Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

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.

Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.

Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.

Atheism is a religion the way abstinence is a sex position.

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

Atheism is the last word of theism

Atheism - Your Gain, No Pain!

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.

Atheism in not simply beyond reason, it is contrary to reason.