123 Quotes About Theism

Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there’s some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. It means thinking there’s always going to be a babysitter available when we need one. We all are inclined to abdicate our responsibilities and delegate our authority to something outside ourselves. Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.

Most religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, subscribe to an interventionist view of God. ...all of these religions, at least in their orthodox expressions, are incompatible with science. This is as far as one gets with a purely logical analysis. Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other Gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

I'll never understand the arrogance of some atheists. It doesn't seem outlandish to me for a creation to believe he or she has a creator.

He who orders his slave to do things that he knows him to be incapable of doing, then punishes him, is a fool.

Certainly my work is negative, destructive; but … only in relation to the unhuman, not to the human[.]

Heidegger’s philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, but a description of the world from which God is absent.

An omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent being has no need for creation, for it already encompasses everything.

Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside

Theism does not offer a sufficiently substantial explanation of our capacities, and naturalism does not offer a sufficiently reassuring one.