Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Atheism
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
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Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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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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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.
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Atheism is too theological.
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Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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