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Line 165: − [[File:Vox Day.jpg|thumbnail|right|130px|[[Vox Day]] ]] + − − * "Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral [[parasite]], living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when pressed, the atheist will often attempt to hide his lack of conviction in his own beliefs behind some poorly formulated utilitarianism, or argue that he acts out of altruistic self-interest. But this is only post-facto rationalization, not reason or rational behavior." - [[Vox Day]]<ref>Day, Vox (November 17, 2003). [https://www.wnd.com/2003/11/21820/ "The irrational atheist"]. WorldNetDaily website. Retrieved on May 28, 2015.</ref> Line 174:
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* "Christianity founds hospitals, and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ." - William Temple<ref>Temple, William, Archbishop of York (1939). ''Readings in St. John's Gospel'' (London: MacMillan) [comment. on John 5:10-18].</ref>
* "Christianity founds hospitals, and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ." - William Temple<ref>Temple, William, Archbishop of York (1939). ''Readings in St. John's Gospel'' (London: MacMillan) [comment. on John 5:10-18].</ref>
* "Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy" - Austin O'Malley<ref>O'Malley, Austin, Dr. (1915). [https://books.google.com/books?id=IbsXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8&dq=%22eating+underdone+philosophy%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1TpnVZfeLNHYoASKhYDgBQ&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22eating%20underdone%20philosophy%22&f=false ''Keystones of Thought''] (New York: Devin-Adair), p. 8. Retrieved from GoogleBooks archive on May 28, 2015.</ref>
* "Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy" - Austin O'Malley<ref>O'Malley, Austin, Dr. (1915). [https://books.google.com/books?id=IbsXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8&dq=%22eating+underdone+philosophy%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1TpnVZfeLNHYoASKhYDgBQ&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22eating%20underdone%20philosophy%22&f=false ''Keystones of Thought''] (New York: Devin-Adair), p. 8. Retrieved from GoogleBooks archive on May 28, 2015.</ref>
*"These days, barely a week passes without the emergence of yet more evidence that atheists are the most irritating people on Earth." - the atheist Brendan O'Neill, ''The Telegraph'', "How Atheists Became the Most Colossally Smug and Annoying People on the Planet", August 14, 2013 <ref>O'Neill, Brendan (August 14, 2013). [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100230985/how-atheists-became-the-most-colossally-smug-and-annoying-people-on-the-planet/ "How atheists became the most colossally smug and annoying people on the planet"]. The Telegraph website/Brendan O'Neill [blog]. Retrieved on October 3, 2014. [atheist author]</ref> See also: [[Atheists and unreasonableness]]
*"These days, barely a week passes without the emergence of yet more evidence that atheists are the most irritating people on Earth." - the atheist Brendan O'Neill, ''The Telegraph'', "How Atheists Became the Most Colossally Smug and Annoying People on the Planet", August 14, 2013 <ref>O'Neill, Brendan (August 14, 2013). [http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100230985/how-atheists-became-the-most-colossally-smug-and-annoying-people-on-the-planet/ "How atheists became the most colossally smug and annoying people on the planet"]. The Telegraph website/Brendan O'Neill [blog]. Retrieved on October 3, 2014. [atheist author]</ref> See also: [[Atheists and unreasonableness]]
*"As a black atheist, I encounter just as much racism amongst other atheists as anywhere else." - Ijeoma Oluo, ''The Guardian'', October 24, 2015<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/24/atheism-does-not-make-me-superior-to-believers-its-a-leap-of-faith-too My atheism does not make me superior to believers. It's a leap of faith too] by Ijeoma Oluo, ''The Guardian'', October 24, 2015</ref> See also: [[Western atheism and race]]
*"As a black atheist, I encounter just as much racism amongst other atheists as anywhere else." - Ijeoma Oluo, ''The Guardian'', October 24, 2015<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/24/atheism-does-not-make-me-superior-to-believers-its-a-leap-of-faith-too My atheism does not make me superior to believers. It's a leap of faith too] by Ijeoma Oluo, ''The Guardian'', October 24, 2015</ref> See also: [[Western atheism and race]]
* "One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature." - ex-atheist and science fiction writer John C. Wright<ref>Wright, John C., quoted in Day, Vox (February 20, 2014). [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2014/02/backfire.html "Backfire"]. Vox Populi [blog]. Retrieved on May 28, 2015. See [[Vox Day]].</ref>
* "One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature." - ex-atheist and science fiction writer John C. Wright<ref>Wright, John C., [https://voxday.net/2014/02/20/backfire/ "Backfire"]</ref>
*"Atheism is in [[Global atheism|decline worldwide]], with the number of atheists falling from 4.5% of the world’s population in 1970 to 2.0% in 2010 and projected to drop to 1.8% by 2020, according to a new report by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass." - Michael W. Chapman, ''CNS News'', July 24, 2013<ref>Chapman, Michael W. (July 24, 2013). [https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/global-study-atheists-decline-only-18-world-population-2020 "Global study: atheists in decline, only 1.8% of world population by 2020"]. Cnsnews.com. Retrieved on July 27, 2014.</ref>
*"Atheism is in [[Global atheism|decline worldwide]], with the number of atheists falling from 4.5% of the world’s population in 1970 to 2.0% in 2010 and projected to drop to 1.8% by 2020, according to a new report by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass." - Michael W. Chapman, ''CNS News'', July 24, 2013<ref>Chapman, Michael W. (July 24, 2013). [https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/global-study-atheists-decline-only-18-world-population-2020 "Global study: atheists in decline, only 1.8% of world population by 2020"]. Cnsnews.com. Retrieved on July 27, 2014.</ref>
* "All that [[Lenin]] learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering. Thus, he declares that accounting and control are the chief things necessary for the organizing and correct functioning of society. . . . Here we have the philosophy of the filing clerk in its full glory." - [[Ludwig von Mises]]<ref>von Mises, Ludwig (1978). [https://books.google.com/books?id=IC0-QNYVnjYC ''The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality''] (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute), ch. 1, sect. 7, pp. 24-5. Retrieved on May 29, 2015.</ref>
* "All that [[Lenin]] learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering. Thus, he declares that accounting and control are the chief things necessary for the organizing and correct functioning of society. . . . Here we have the philosophy of the filing clerk in its full glory." - [[Ludwig von Mises]]<ref>von Mises, Ludwig (1978). [https://books.google.com/books?id=IC0-QNYVnjYC ''The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality''] (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute), ch. 1, sect. 7, pp. 24-5. Retrieved on May 29, 2015.</ref>
[[File:John Gray.JPG|thumbnail|right|200px|The [[economist]] Tomáš Sedláček (left) and the atheist [[philosophy|philosopher]] [[John Gray (philosopher)|John Gray]] (right) at ZURICH.MINDS 2012]]
[[File:John Gray.JPG|thumbnail|right|200px|The [[economist]] Tomáš Sedláček (left) and the atheist [[philosophy|philosopher]] [[John Gray (philosopher)|John Gray]] (right) at ZURICH.MINDS 2012]]