Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.
When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
I believe that there may well be a personal God out there - not a monotheistic God - that has got it in for me.
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.