“Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position.”
“Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.”
“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”
“Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.”
“Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.”
Article http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1121/p09s01-coop.html for The Christian Science Monitor (21 November 2006).
“If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.”
Quoted in Penelope Fitzgerald, The Knox Brothers (1977), Ch. IV
“When You Die You’re Done” https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2016/08/02/when-you-die-youre-done/, Around the World with Ken Ham (August 2, 2016)
Around the World with Ken Ham (May 2005 - Ongoing)
"Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine" as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 417
Context: Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.
