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If there were not God, there would be no atheists.
Where All Roads Lead (1922); this is often misquoted as "If there were no God, there would be no atheists."
Kontekst: Atheism is, I suppose, the supreme example of a simple faith. The man says there is no God; if he really says it in his heart, he is a certain sort of man so designated in Scripture [i. e. a fool, Ps 53:2]. But, anyhow, when he has said it, he has said it; and there seems to be no more to be said. The conversation seems likely to languish. The truth is that the atmosphere of excitement, by which the atheist lived, was an atmosphere of thrilled and shuddering theism, and not of atheism at all; it was an atmosphere of defiance and not of denial. Irreverence is a very servile parasite of reverence; and has starved with its starving lord. After this first fuss about the merely aesthetic effect of blasphemy, the whole thing vanishes into its own void. If there were not God, there would be no atheists.
Źródło: Gianni Vattimo, culturecongress.eu http://www.culturecongress.eu/people/vattimo_gianni
„Jestem ateistą… dzięki Bogu!”
Źródło: „Le Monde”, 16 grudnia 1959
„Ateiści denerwują mnie, bo ciągle mówią o Bogu.”
„Największą wiarę mają ateiści: wierzą, że Boga nie ma.”
„Czy jestem ateistą? Bóg jeden raczy wiedzieć.”
„Dla ciebie jestem ateistą, dla Boga – konstruktywną opozycją.”
„Wszystkie dzieci rodzą się ateistami i nie mają pojęcia o Bogu.”
Źródło: Le Bon Sens, Amsterdam 1772.
"An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practicet". (ang.)
Źródło: Kto to jest agnostyk?
„Zwalczać coś to znaczy to coś podtrzymywać.(…) Być ateistą to znaczy podtrzymywać wiarę w Boga.”
Cykl Hain (Ekumena), Lewa ręka ciemności
