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  • The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

    Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America
  • I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.

    Source: www.thedailybeast.com
  • To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.

    R. C. Sproul (2015). “What We Believe: Understanding and Confessing the Apostles' Creed”, p.43, Baker Books
  • Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

  • A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.

    Science   Reality   Men  
  • If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

    Atheist   Men   Religion  
  • Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race.

    Race   Years   Agony  
    Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”
  • In affirming God to be supreme in all things, the classical theist describes him in a number of ways. He is perfect, loving, good, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, timeless, transcendent, personal, immutable and immanent. But how can this be? Is it really possible to be both eternal and timeless? Immutable and immanent? Personal and at the same time transcendent?

    Numbers   Perfect   Way  
  • I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

  • When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

    Men   Theist   Humans  
    Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.137, Transaction Publishers
  • I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.

    Atheist   Ideas   Mind  
    Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.299, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.

    Believe   Humble   Men  
    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.7, Criss Jami
  • If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

    God   Religious   Atheist  
    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.40, St. Martin's Press
  • The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

    "Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2008.
  • Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

  • Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one would suffice.

    Giving   Argument   Proof  
  • Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

    Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books
  • The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

    George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult
  • The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

    "Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2008.
  • God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

    Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1807, Delphi Classics
  • I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.

  • An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

    "A Tribute to Carl Sagan: The Sagan File" by Joel Achenbach, The Skeptic Magazine, Vol 13, No. 1, www.skeptic.com. 2006.
  • Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of the people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to the famine and starvation of outraged Hindoos; Jahve continues deaf to the bitter cry of Israel; while Jesus refuses to rise from the dead against his Christians who are butchering each other.

    Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”
  • Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s existence.

    Atheist   Giving   Doe  
  • It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist and an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

    Atheist   Men   Doubt  
    "Darwin's complex loss of faith" by Nick Spencer, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2009.
  • I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I have hitherto followed the lines marked out by the Theist in his attempt to prove that there exists a mind behind natural phenomena, and that the universe as we have it is, at least generally, an evidence of a plan designed by this mind. I have also pointed out that the only datum for such a conclusion is the universe we know. We must take that as a starting point. We can get neither behind it nor beyond it. We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

    Data   Mind   Atheism  
  • 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.

    Wish   Atheism   Belief  
    George H. Smith (2016). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.33, Prometheus Books
  • So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

    "What on Earth is an Atheist!". Book by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 1972.
  • As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.

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