Theism Quotes
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It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its corruption, given birth to polytheism and to all the various superstitions of the heathen world. Reason, when obvious, prevents these corruptions: When abstruse, it keeps the principles entirely from the knowledge of the vulgar, who are alone liable to corrupt any principle or opinion.
David Hume— David Hume, The Natural History of Religion, sect. 1, p. 312 (1898).
Heidegger 's philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, bit a description of the world from which God is absent.
— Chapter Nine, Heidegger, p. 187 (Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958))
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
Richard Dawkins— Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (2006), "A deeply religious non-believer", p. 40.
FREE THINKERS: all people whose beliefs regarding "spirits" are compatible with modern science. Deism , pan-deism, agnosticism and atheism are compatible; theism is not.
— Charles Brough Destiny and Civilization: The Evolutionary Explanation of Religion and History (2008), p. 295.
In the context of natural theology there is reason to believe that pantheism may fare well if compared with theism. This may be part of the reason why it has been the classic religious alternative to theism.
— Michael P. Levine, Pantheism: A Non-Theistic Concept of Deity p. 349.
It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its corruption, given birth to polytheism and to all the various superstitions of the heathen world. Reason, when obvious, prevents these corruptions: When abstruse, it keeps the principles entirely from the knowledge of the vulgar, who are alone liable to corrupt any principle or opinion.
David Hume— David Hume, The Natural History of Religion, sect. 1, p. 312 (1898).
Our theism is the purification of the human mind. Man can paint, or make, or think nothing but man. He believes that the great material elements had their origin from his thought.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Uses of Great Men, Representative Men (1850).
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men’s minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Illusions, The Conduct of Life (1860).
