The fact is, when we are born, we are neither theists nor atheists, but ignoro-theists.
Atheism Quotes
Carl Sagan has the most entries, then Thomas Henry Huxley, Simone Weil, Voltaire and Christopher Hitchens. Weil, a deeply religious writer, is on the list because she wrote about its edges. The sourced lines include Russell’s remark in Sceptical Essays (1928) that thought is not free if professing certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living, and Woody Allen’s in Stardust Memories (1980), “To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.”
Three entries are flagged. The argument that God is either unwilling or unable to prevent evil is credited to Epicurus and disputed; the notes show it reaches us second-hand, in a later writer’s account of him. “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful” is credited to Seneca and disputed. A line about having too high an IQ to be anything but an atheist, credited to Donald Trump, is marked misattributed.
I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.
Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they're going to Hell? Did you ask them that?
But we do not believe that atheists can prevail against the Godhead.
That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that?
To err is human, whether we are religious, atheist, or agnostic.
Speaking as a devout atheist, thank God in his Almighty wisdom that he made us mortal.
I don't like the fact that you try to drive a wedge between atheists and agnostics.
Among the things I have been since I first opened my eyes at birth is an atheist.