Charles Bradlaugh Quotes

Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.

It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.

Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

I'm an atheist.

I don't think in terms of God.

I'm an agnosto-theist.

I don't believe in God.

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

[I'm] almost positive there is no God.

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

Saying atheism is a belief system is like saying not going skiing is a hobby.

I believe in nature instead of God.

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

The absence of theistic belief...

Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores.

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

Anti-theism presupposes Theism

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.