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== Additional atheism quotes==
== Additional atheism quotes==
*"Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain." - [[Ex-atheists|Ex-atheist]] [[Allister McGrath]]<ref>[http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/15-christian-quotes-about-atheism-or-atheists/ 15 Christian Quotes About Atheism Or Atheists]</ref>
The Christian apologist Tom Gilson, after citing cases where atheists hold to views without sufficient evidence, quotes the prominent atheist [[Thomas Nagel]] who declared:
The Christian apologist Tom Gilson, after citing cases where atheists hold to views without sufficient evidence, quotes the prominent atheist [[Thomas Nagel]] who declared:
[https://www.thinkingchristian.net/posts/2015/08/atheism-and-evidence-self-defense-against-belief/ 'Atheism and Evidence: Self-Defense Against Belief?''] by Tom Gilson</ref>}}
[https://www.thinkingchristian.net/posts/2015/08/atheism-and-evidence-self-defense-against-belief/ 'Atheism and Evidence: Self-Defense Against Belief?''] by Tom Gilson</ref>}}
[[Image:Y8r587ig.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]] I by [[Jacques Louis David]]]]
[[Image:Y8r587ig.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]] I by [[Jacques Louis David]]]]
* "'[N]o one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The [[Christian apologetics|Christian Apologists]] have left one nothing to disbelieve.'" - Hector Hugh Munro (better known by the pen name Saki)<ref>Saki (1913). [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/555/555-h/555-h.htm ''The Unbearable Bassington''] (London: John Lane), 6th ed., ch. 13.</ref>
* "'[N]o one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The [[Christian apologetics|Christian Apologists]] have left one nothing to disbelieve.'" - Hector Hugh Munro (better known by the pen name Saki)<ref>Saki (1913). [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/555/555-h/555-h.htm ''The Unbearable Bassington''] (London: John Lane), 6th ed., ch. 13.</ref>
* "Even the most ferocious projects of coercive secularization have thus far failed to produce the new godless man dreamed of by [[Enlightenment]] thinkers since the eighteenth century". - [[Peter L. Berger]]<ref>[http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/05/13/desecularization/ Desecularization] by Peter L. Berger, ''American Interest'', May 13, 2015</ref>
* "Even the most ferocious projects of coercive secularization have thus far failed to produce the new godless man dreamed of by [[Enlightenment]] thinkers since the eighteenth century". - [[Peter L. Berger]]<ref>[http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/05/13/desecularization/ Desecularization] by Peter L. Berger, ''American Interest'', May 13, 2015</ref>
* The [[New Atheism|new atheist]] [[Richard Dawkins]] declared: "Christianity may actually be our best defence against aberrant forms of religion that threaten the world".<ref>[http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/01/12/professional-atheist-dawkins-says-christianity-bulwark-against-something-worse/ Professional Atheist Dawkins Says Christianity ‘Bulwark Against Something Worse’], by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D, ''Breitbart News Network'', Jan 12, 2016
*[http://www.christiantoday.com/article/richard.dawkins.says.christianity.is.worlds.best.defence.against.radical.islam/76416.htm Richard Dawkins says Christianity is world's best defence against radical Islam], Christianity Today, January 2016</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>
* "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>
* "God is dead not because He doesn’t exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn’t." - [[Chuck Colson]]<ref>Colson, Charles with Vaughan, Ellen Santili (1987). ''Kingdoms in Conflict'' (Grand Rapids: co-published by William Morrow and Zondervan Publishing House), p. 181.</ref>
* "God is dead not because He doesn’t exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn’t." - [[Chuck Colson]]<ref>Colson, Charles with Vaughan, Ellen Santili (1987). ''Kingdoms in Conflict'' (Grand Rapids: co-published by William Morrow and Zondervan Publishing House), p. 181.</ref>
*"It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian." - Ex-atheist [[Lee Strobel]]
Read more: http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/15-christian-quotes-about-atheism-or-atheists/#ixzz4dSQjz97y<ref>[http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/15-christian-quotes-about-atheism-or-atheists/ 15 Christian Quotes About Atheism Or Atheists]</ref>
* "An irreligious man, a speculative or practical atheist, is as a sovereign who voluntarily takes off his crown and declares himself unworthy to reign. - John Stuart Blackie<ref>Blackie, John Stuart (1871). [http://books.google.com/books?id=RDwXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA91&dq=an+irreligious+man,+a+speculative+or+practical+atheist ''Four Phases of Morals: Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, Utilitarianism''] (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons), 1892 edition, p. 91. Retrieved from GoogleBooks on February 26, 2015.</ref>
* "An irreligious man, a speculative or practical atheist, is as a sovereign who voluntarily takes off his crown and declares himself unworthy to reign. - John Stuart Blackie<ref>Blackie, John Stuart (1871). [http://books.google.com/books?id=RDwXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA91&dq=an+irreligious+man,+a+speculative+or+practical+atheist ''Four Phases of Morals: Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, Utilitarianism''] (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons), 1892 edition, p. 91. Retrieved from GoogleBooks on February 26, 2015.</ref>