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If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.

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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

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Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

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From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

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If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

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There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

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No one ever dies an atheist.

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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

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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.

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Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society. Religion is the private affair of an individual...be present in the public domain, but state has to be clearly separated from religion. When I'm speaking, I'm speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.

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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

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I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job.

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In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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

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