This Atheism affirms that the Atheist only knows qualities, and only knows these qualities as the characteristics of modes.
Spinoza recognises infinite intelligence, butAtheism cannot conceive intelligence except in relation as quality of the conditioned, and not as the essence of the absolute.
By Atheism I mean the affirmation of one existence, of which existence I know only mode; each mode being distinguished in thought by its qualities.
Atheism would preserve man from lying, stealing, murdering, not from fear of an eternal agony after death, but because these crimes make this life itself a course of misery.
Yet many writers agree in writing as if his Atheism were of indisputable notoriety.
Such persons urge that amongst the proximate causes of Atheism are vicious training, immoral and profligate companions, licentious living and the like.
In England, atheism was an insurrection of justice against any deity diabolical enough to establish the reign of terror in that country or any deity worshipped by a church which imprisoned men for their opinions.
He was aiming to rescue the divine Idea from traditional degradations in order that he might with it confront a revolutionary Atheism defying the celestial monarchy.
On the other hand, Paine's opposition to atheismwould appear to have brought him into danger from another quarter, in which religion could not be distinguished from priestcraft.
Thirdly: To this rebellion and murder have been owing the rise and progress of atheism among us.
To this we owe, in a great measure, the spreading of atheism and infidelity among us; for religion, like all other things, is soonest put out of countenance by being ridiculed.
Even atheism is often less irreligious than a positive belief in the imperfect and inconsistent God of religion.
Between idealistic theism and atheism the distance may be diminished ad infinitum.
But the faith of the poet and of the thinker takes fire but for a moment; we enter into a period of doubt which Max Müller designates by the name of adevism and which he carefully distinguishes from atheism properly so called.
Sidenote: Theism and atheism insensibly pass into each other.
Materialism, therefore, must enlarge its principle if it is to prove productive: enlarge, as Diderot would say, your atheism and your materialism.
It was Pascal who said that atheism was a sign of strength of mind, but a strength displayed in one direction only.
The prevarication of too many in so sacred a matter contributed not a little to fortify the growing atheism of the present age.
Author of a vituperative libel on agnostics, called Atheism and Faith.
Descartes, Paschal, and Doctor Samuel Clarke himself, have been accused of atheism by the theologians of their time.
Is what is termed Atheism compatible with Morality?
Atheism is stigmatized with having "opened a wide door for libertinism, destroying the social and moral compact; and striking a deadly blow at religion.
If the system of atheism cannot make him perverse, who is not so by his temperament, it cannot render him good, who does not otherwise know the motives that should conduct him to virtue.
As William Law, the prince of apologists, has it: "Atheism is not the denial of a first omnipotent cause.
Many of them were deeply tainted with the foul atheism engendered by the Revolution; many more with the practicalatheism that comes of reckless living.
In the atheism dispute, at the end of the eighteenth century, decision was rendered upon Goethe's advice against the philosopher Fichte; Fichte was discharged in spite of petitions and mediations in his favour.
The flight from divinity, atheism open or disguised, is the psychological effect of the liberal principle.
How are they going to prove that it is incumbent upon an atheistic college-professor to teach his atheism also to others?
Does the state comply with this duty by silently supporting a public atheism when it might do otherwise?
Since then, liberal science has been aiming at atheism in philosophy, whether open or masked.
And it was against the same Epicurean Atheism that Cudworth contended in his "Intellectual System of the Universe," when he grappled with the objections which had been urged against the doctrine of Providence and the practice of prayer.
We are far from thinking, indeed, that the old mechanical and materialistic Atheism is so completely worn out or so utterly exploded as some recent writers would have us to believe;[117] for M.
We have often thought, indeed, that should Atheism ever threaten to become prevalent in England, this is the form which it is most likely to assume.
It is manifestly a matter of indifference whether this method of accounting for the phenomena of Nature be called Atheism or Pantheism; in either aspect it is essentially the same.
This eloquent text-book of the Atheism of the last century is dissected and refuted by M.
It was the characteristic feature of the Atheism of the last century, and was fully exhibited in the "Systême de la Nature.
But unless it can be shown that Atheism interferes with the sight, the hearing, or the memory, why should justice shut the door to truth?
It is attempted to show that there is no alternative between Atheism and Christianity; that the evidences of the Being of a God are to be deduced from no other principles than those of Divine Revelation.
Were it not for his want of a quality so conspicuous in Byron, one would suspect Shelley of grim humour in making the arguments for Atheism proceed from a Christian's mouth.
Moreover, the critique of the new atheismwas more searching than had been that of the old deism.
To accuse an enemy of atheism and heresy was a matter of course; to add charges of unnatural vice or, if he were dead, stories of suicide and of the devils hovering greedily over his deathbed, was extremely common.
Indeed there is no clearer case of it than what can only be called the atheism of Jane Austen.
What was paganism in Chatham was atheism in Frederick the Great.
Atheism must in fairness be acknowledged to have much mended its manners within the last two or three generations.
This, however, is not a new feature in any atheism really worthy of being styled scientific.
True, the cupidity, the tyranny, the fear and the atheism of the land are against us.
Of speculative atheism there is not much; you see how much of the practical!
Indeed of atheism he has written as caustically as the most orthodox could wish.
No wonder Carlyle fiercely denounced it all as "a wretched, unsympathetic, scraggy atheism and egoism".
His analyses of the doctrines held by the various schools of modern atheism are admirable, and his criticism original and profound; while his arguments in defence of the Christian Faith are powerful and convincing.
He deals heavy, deadly blows on atheism in all its various forms; and wherever the work is read it cannot fail to do good.
This prophecy of Isaiah contains a great Gospel and two great Protests, which the prophet was enabled to make in the strength of it: one against the Atheism of Force, and one against the Atheism of Fear.
But after all the human Ego needs very little room to develop the possibilities of atheism that are in it.
Few of us trouble our heads about an intellectual atheism, but the temptations to practical atheism abound unto us all day by day.
And all that is the Atheism of Force, with which Isaiah charged the Assyrian.
Remember that Atheism is not the first principle of a Republic; remember there is a law of God, the higher law of the universe, the Everlasting Right; I thought so once, and now I know it.
What would be atheism in a minister of the church,--is that patriotism in a minister of the state?
But practical, political atheism has become a common thing in America, in New England.
But Mahayanism was pulled equally strongly in the opposite direction by the popular and mythological elements which it contained and was on the whole inclined to theism and even polytheism quite as much as to atheism and acosmism.
It is true that these passages speak of there being no proof of God's existence and hence commentators both Indian and European who shrink from atheism represent the Sâṅkhya as suspending judgment.
It is interesting to find that Jaimini was accused of atheism and defended by Kumârila Bhaṭṭa.
Always tolerant of the religious opinions of others, he had nothing but scorn and contempt for the blatant dogmatic atheism of his time, and vigorously opposed committing the Socialist movement to atheismas part of its programme.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "atheism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
