Atheism

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Atheism, as an explicit position, can be either the affirmation of the nonexistence of gods,or the rejection of theism.It is alsodefined more broadly as synonymous with any form of nontheism, including the simple absence of belief in deities. Many self-described atheists are skeptical of all supernatural beings and cite a lack of empirical evidence for the existence of deities. Others argue for atheism on philosophical, social or historical grounds. Although many self-described atheists tend... full article at wikipedia

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If there is no God, everything is permitted.	Fyodor Dostoevsky
He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).	George Orwell
We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.	William Temple
Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.	Olive Schreiner
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.	Francis Bacon
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.	Francis Bacon
An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support	Aldous Huxley
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.	Simone Weil
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?	Quentin Crisp
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?	John Updike
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