Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
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I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.
The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that counts in America is to call into question the proposition that everyone has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.
Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.