{"quotes":[{"text":"Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis fails to become a Christian because of a lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with god.","author":"William Lane Craig","tags":["apologetics","aronra","atheism","atheist","bill","craig","david","davidjohnwellman","debate","dogma","dumbfuck","faith","idiot","lane","liar","reasonable","religion","smalley","theism","theist","william"],"id":30632,"author_id":"William+Lane+Craig"},{"text":"Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.","author":"Peter Kreeft","tags":["absence-of-god","catholicism","christianity","deism","deist","god","jesus-shock","philosophy","presence-of-god","theism","theist","theology"],"id":39704,"author_id":"Peter+Kreeft"},{"text":"If you invoke faith as justification for your belief, you must accept the same from others. And every person who retreats to faith bears a measure of responsibility for every act of hate and violence justified by it.","author":"Nate Phelps","tags":["atheism","atheist","religion","religious-extremism","religious-faith","theism","theist"],"id":163226,"author_id":"Nate+Phelps"},{"text":"Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.","author":"Bill Gaede","tags":["atheism","atheist","exist","gaede","god","mathematical-physics","mathematicians","mathematics","religion","skepticism","theist"],"id":173992,"author_id":"Bill+Gaede"},{"text":"Spirituality can exists only in a pure heart.","author":"Sangita Pareek","tags":["emotions","god","heart","human","spirituality","theist"],"id":177327,"author_id":"Sangita+Pareek"},{"text":"If God really valued loyalty, He would have blessed every single believer before He even considered blessing a single nonbeliever.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["atheism","atheist","atheists","beliefs","believe-in-god","believer","believers","believers-in-god","blessing","blessings","church","god","gods","illness","nonbeliever","nonbelievers","pain","poverty","religion","sickness","suffering","theism","theist","theists"],"id":253588,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["afterlife","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","atheism","atheists","belief","beliefs","believe","church","churches","dead","death","drive","drives","fear","funny","god","gods","heaven","heaven-and-hell","hell","hereafter","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","instinct","instincts","joke","jokes","kill","killed","killer","killers","life-after-death","murder","murderer","murderers","phobia","religion","satire","self-preservation","theism","theist","theists"],"id":312696,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.","author":"Samuel Butler","tags":["atheist","god","theist"],"id":334595,"author_id":"Samuel+Butler"},{"text":"People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really want to fear something, they should be fearing separation from God, the supposedly more comforting alternative to a literal Hell. For separation from the authorship of love, mercy, and goodness is the ultimate torture. If you think a literal Hell sounds too bad, you are very much underestimating the pain of being absolutely, wholly separated from the goodness while exposed to the reality of the holiness of God.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","atheist","bible","comfort","eternity","evangelism","fear","fire","fundamentalism","god","goodness","grace","hell","holiness","literal","love","mercy","pain","philosophy","pit-of-fire","punishment","reality","religion","separation","sin","skeptic","spirituality","suffering","theist","theologian","torture","wrath","wrath-of-god"],"id":363650,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Spirituality can exist only in a pure heart.","author":"Sangita Pareek","tags":["emotions","god","love","nature","spirituality","theist"],"id":365285,"author_id":"Sangita+Pareek"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}