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A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through life while loudly professing their amorality.

— Lynn Coady

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

— Simone Weil

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

— Annie Besant

If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

— Tariq Ramadan

Atheists have not produced so much evil as hypocrites have produced, or even simply those who preached God without being prepared for Him, daring to pronounce His name with unsanctified lips.

— Nikolai Gogol

I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.

— Tariq Ali

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

— Ray Comfort

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

— Sam Harris

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

— Julian Baggini

I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that.

— Stephen Moyer

✗Opposing Perspectives

Atheists are pious people.

— Max Stirner