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Atheism and morality quotes (view source)
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[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]'s novel ''The Brothers Karamazov'':
[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]'s novel ''The Brothers Karamazov'':
{{Cquote|And Rakitin doesn't like God, oof, how he doesn't! That's the sore spot in all of them! But they conceal it. They lie. They pretend. 'What, are you going to push for that in the department of criticism?' I asked. 'Well, they won't let me do it openly,' he said, and laughed. 'But,' I asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,' he said. 'The intelligent man knows how to catch crayfish, but you killed and fouled it up,' he said, 'and now you're rotting in prison!' He said that to me. A natural-born swine! I once used to throw the likes of him out—well, and now I listen to them.<ref>(Dostoevsky's ''The Brothers Karamazov'', Pevear-Volokhonsky translation 1990, p. 589</ref>}}
{{Cquote|And Rakitin doesn't like God, oof, how he doesn't! That's the sore spot in all of them! But they conceal it. They lie. They pretend. 'What, are you going to push for that in the department of criticism?' I asked. 'Well, they won't let me do it openly,' he said, and laughed. 'But,' I asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,' he said. 'The intelligent man knows how to catch crayfish, but you killed and fouled it up,' he said, 'and now you're rotting in prison!' He said that to me. A natural-born swine! I once used to throw the likes of him out—well, and now I listen to them.<ref>Dostoevsky's ''The Brothers Karamazov'', Pevear-Volokhonsky translation 1990, p. 589</ref>}}
Dr. Phil Fernandes says concerning [[atheism]] and [[moral relativism]]:
Dr. Phil Fernandes says concerning [[atheism]] and [[moral relativism]]:
* "Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman." - Laurence J. Peter<ref>Peter, Laurence J. (1977). ''Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times'' (New York: William Morrow), p. 44. Commenting on the [[Francis Thompson]] quote: "An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident."</ref>
* "Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman." - Laurence J. Peter<ref>Peter, Laurence J. (1977). ''Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times'' (New York: William Morrow), p. 44. Commenting on the [[Francis Thompson]] quote: "An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident."</ref>
* "Atheism is a bleak worthless ideology. It robs the brain of reason, the conscience of moral guidance, the mind of tranquility and the soul of hope." - Nana Yiadom, March 11, 2011<ref>Yiadom, Nana (March 11, 2011). [http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/religion/artikel.php?ID=204862 "The 'no God' religion"]. GhanaWeb. Retrieved on February 26, 2015.</ref>
* "The irony of intolerant atheists is remarkable. They proudly declare their open-mindedness, and in the same breath they work feverishly to extinguish by force any mention of God, any support to theism, in civic life. Are you puzzled by this? Don't be. Censorship is in atheism's marrow... Moreover, atheism cannot withstand reasoned examination. The assertion that everything came from nothing, without reason and without moral law, isn't defensible in rational discourse, so silent assent is necessary to hold sway over culture." - Michael Egnor <ref>Egnor, Michael (March 29, 2014). [http://www.evolutionnews.org/2014/03/censorship_is_a083761.html#sthash.gWd3Cxdw.dpuf "Censorship is atheism's immune system"]. Evolution News and Views. Retrieved on February 26, 2015.</ref>
*"I find that contemporary atheists take great umbrage at the biblical claim that God holds people to be morally culpable for their unbelief. They want to maintain their unbelief in God without accepting the responsibility for it. ...unbelief is a choice. It is a choice to resist the force of the evidence and the drawing of God’s [[Holy Spirit]]. The unbeliever is like someone dying of a fatal disease who refuses to believe the medical evidence concerning the efficacy of a proffered cure and who rejects the testimony of his doctor to it and who, as a result, suffers the consequence of his own stubbornness. He has no one to blame but himself." - [[William Lane Craig]]<ref>Craig, William Lane (December 13, 2010). [http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8539 "Q&A Question #191: Is unbelief culpable?"] Reasonable Faith website. Retrieved on May 24, 2015.</ref>
Douglas Wilson declared:
{{cquote|If there is no God, then all that exists is time and chance acting on matter. If this is true then the difference between your thoughts and mine correspond to the difference between shaking up a bottle of Mountain Dew and a bottle of Dr. Pepper. You simply fizz atheistically and I fizz theistically. This means that you do not hold to atheism because it is true , but rather because of a series of chemical reactions... Morality, tragedy, and sorrow are equally evanescent. They are all empty sensations created by the chemical reactions of the brain, in turn created by too much pizza the night before. If there is no God, then all abstractions are chemical epiphenomena, like swamp gas over fetid water. This means that we have no reason for assigning truth and falsity to the chemical fizz we call reasoning or right and wrong to the irrational reaction we call morality. If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else." - Douglas Wilson <ref name="Favorite quotes">[http://www.proofthatgodexists.org/favourite-quotes.php Favorite quotes]</ref>}}
== See also ==
== See also ==