They know nothing; they are no more atheists than they are peripatetics.
In what does the apparent impossibility of a society of atheists consist?
They who have maintained that a society of atheists may exist have then been right, for it is laws that form society, and these atheists, being moreover philosophers, may lead a very wise and happy life under the shade of those laws.
He cites his example in support of his paradox, that "a society of atheistsmight exist.
A word on the question in morals, agitated by Bayle, "Whether a society of atheists can exist.
There were once many atheistsamong the Christians; they are now much fewer.
The atheists of the senate had been factious in the times of Sulla and of Caesar; in those of Augustus and Tiberius, they were atheistical slaves.
Then, it is asked, can a people of atheists exist?
To pretend that they are atheists would be like saying they are anti-Cartesians.
The special wrath with which Paine is still visited, above all other deists put together, or even atheists is a tradition from a so-called Christianity which his work compelled to capitulate.
The atheists and secularists of our time are printing, reading, revering a work that opposes their opinions.
And thou shouldst never permit beggars and atheists and thieves to dwell in thy kingdom.
When even atheists are annoyed with those that have fallen off from truth and virtue and who are really like angry snakes of virulent poison, what shall I say of myself who am nurtured in faith?
Few atheists will deny that something is infinite, or that they immediately apprehend various aspects of infinity.
Such theists seem to me not only the best allies of atheists, but even more effective labourers in the cause of unbelief than atheists themselves.
Critias, the well-known reactionary politician, the chief of the Thirty Tyrants, is placed amongst the atheists on the strength of a passage in a satyric drama, Sisyphus.
The atheists of the National Convention and the Theophilanthropists of the Directory not only denied his demi-divinity, but transformed him into a satyr; and in pretending to tear the veil of superstition, annihilated all belief in a God.
Christ, will soon remember the precepts of atheists and freethinkers, and believe that Christ is not the Son of God, and that God is only the invention of fear.
Then the Empress asked them, Whether there were any Atheistsin the World?
The Spirits answered, That there were no more Atheists then what Cabbalists make.
Yet we meet withAtheists who are fortunate and happy.
He added that the existence of God could be useful only to those who did not entertain a doubt of that existence, and that, as a natural consequence, Atheists must be the most miserable of men.
He professes, however, in his title page (and undoubtedly with great truth) to have composed his book against the sceptics, as well as against the Atheists and Freethinkers.
Atheists hold that by teaching mankind the real road to human happiness it is possible to keep them from the bye-ways of criminality and error.
Men who have been famous for depth of thought, for excellent wit, or great genius, have been recklessly assailed as Atheists by those who lack the high qualifications against which the malice of the calumniators was directed.
John Pye Smith, in his "Instructions on Christian Theology," goes so far as to declare that "nearly all the Atheists upon record have been men of extremely debauched and vile conduct.
Smith mentions as either Atheists or favoring Atheism, were Paul Jovius, Peter Aretin, and Muretus.
Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by-and-bye, but because in the virtuous act itself immediate good is insured to the doer and the circle surrounding him.
But the problem of the persistence of war has somehow escaped atheists and rationalists, just as it has eluded theologians and revivalists.
This sufficiently answers the silly talk of atheists and semi-atheists about the warlike wickedness of the Jews.
During the Reign of Terror, the French were declared by the National Assembly to be a nation of atheists; but a brief experience convinced them that a nation of atheists could not long exist.
The immaterialist is a religious atheist; he only differs from the other class of atheists by clothing an indivisible unextended nothing with the powers of a God.
The misfortune is, that atheists of the closet make atheists of the court.
This alone might somewhat lessen the confidence of atheists in themselves.
And thus the position is reduced to a demonstrated problem, that all Christians are either atheists or idolaters.
Atheists did not as a sect entirely disappear from England after the execution of their scapegoat, but they do not seem to have been further molested for their opinions.
An investigation into the causes and authors of the disturbances was set on foot, and it was felt that a scapegoat was needed to create a wholesome fear of the long arm of the law in the minds of would-be atheists among the people.
Would you expect to go out among the people of this country, people of different churches, of many different religious factions, and tell them that they must become atheists before they can become Socialists?
Such areatheists towards nature, the author of their existence, and God must so regard them.
Are they any thing else but the vile instruments of which the atheists and Protestants who infest Madrid make use for their perfidious conquests and the extermination of the faith?
When I was in Madrid and they took me to the Atheneum, I confess that I was amazed to see the wonderful talent which God has bestowed on the atheists and the Protestants.
Nay, hath it not furnished the atheists and infidels of all ages with the most plausible arguments against a creation?
We have seen how Locke refused toleration to atheists on the ground that their denial of a divine lawgiver and judge destroys the basis of morality.
In the throng, there are heretics without a creed, Jews without a Testament, atheists without a God, and Catholics without laws.
Anything more meanly vile and dishonest than this it would be difficult to imagine, yet such are the weapons used against Atheists in a Christian country.
A discussion arose, one night, on the admissibility of Atheists to the society.
Zerffi declared that he would not remain a member if avowed Atheistswere admitted.
Their incurable faith cannot be shaken even by their religious leaders, and when they become atheists they are the most pious atheists in all the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "atheists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
