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Atheism is a non-prophet organization

Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.

Don Hirschberg

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to the acknowledgement of a divine power.

Plato

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order

Sir Francis Bacon

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism

Donald Morgan

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.....

Plato

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.....

Plato

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Edmond de Goncourt

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

Francis Bacon, Sr.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant

Antonio Machado

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Dennis Prager

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence

George Jacob Holyoake

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

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Vladimir Lenin

It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty.

Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen

For M. Maurras the practical is the divine, and his atheism consists less in denying God than in shifting him to man and his political work. It is the divinizing of politics.

Julien Benda