Quotes about atheis
Andrew Furst - Western Lights – A Collection of Short Essays on Buddhism
Separating the God question from Buddhism does not make Buddhists atheists—within silence lies mystery. That doesn’t mean, however, we should infer from this acknowledgement of the mystery a nod one way or another on the matter of the divine.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Give me something to worship whatever.” Cries the human soul
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollahs convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him on that level they are all equal
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves those delusions keep their day running.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
An atheist is a disappointed true believer he is an angry and hungry soul who has failed to find a real god to whom he can anchor his hope
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
All religions are man-made God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
The more time you invest into studying religion, the more likely you are to disbelieve in the gods
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Religion is a theory about everything that needs to be proved only after death those who prove or disprove it never come back to us to tell the story
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
All religions are guesswork
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Don’t curse the gods you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
God is powerful. Even those who claim not to believe in him fear him. Though their mouths may confess to disbelieve in him, their hearts yearn for him.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he cannot justly condemn those who seek him earnestly and cannot find him. He would even reward their earnest search for him.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
He is an atheist anyone who does not believe in my god and the wrath of god is upon him; I am in my right to meet that wrath on him," thunders the fanatic
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him. Atheism is a cry of despair
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
I know what is going on in the heart of an atheist. Deep anguish that there is nothing beyond, nothing to live for, nothing to give him hope. I know because I endured the same predicament.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - Pearls Of Eternity
After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanity