#agnosticism

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Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.


Bede Griffiths


#atheism #idols #religion #religion

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.


Sam Harris


#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.


Bill Gates


#atheism #efficiency #religion #religion

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.


Orson Welles


#atheism #choose #great #great love #hate

The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.


Robert Anton Wilson


#christianity #humor #humor

We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.


Andy Rooney


#atheism #belief #beliefs #god #gods

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#absolution #agnosticism #distrust #evasion #health

The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire blazes in the midst and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter to winter again. So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.


St. Bede


#agnosticism #brevity #happiness #life #religion

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.


Sam Harris


#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.


Robert A. Heinlein


#god #religion #worship #religion