Dan Savage Quotes

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I'm not dedicated to anything - I go through periods where I think maybe it's all nonsense; maybe it's 'The Matrix...' I'm open to various ideas.

I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God'... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question.

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

I consider myself a religious person, but when it comes to God and faith, I don't know. I guess that means I'm agnostic.

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 am an agnostic as to the question of God.

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.'

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God.