J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

If there is no God, then I am God.

Where there is no God, all is permitted.

If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

I'm an agnosto-theist.

By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands—a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

Find out who Sartre is.

No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

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.

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.

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

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.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered. "Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master. "So you are an atheist?" "Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it.

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

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?