Why Our Children Will Be Atheists Quotes

“Our own sense of self-worth refuses to accept that our existence is a wonderful accident, and that there is no true purpose in it, except for the purposes we make for ourselves.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“Nothing is truth unless proven by knowledge and reason.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“Where religion previously explained the creation of the world, science is now providing a better and more consistent understanding of how it came into being.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“Science does not yet know everything; nor does it pretend to, unlike religion. Included among the great mysteries are: Why and how the Cosmos came to exist in the first place. How the first basic life form came into existence.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“All lead to further loss of healthy proteins and cells. There is now also evidence that our cells contain genes that actually cause aging—in other words, Death is encoded in our genome. We are genetically programmed to age.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“in other words, Death is encoded in our genome. We are genetically programmed to age.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“Human relationships, with love and support; Feeling appreciated in a community, with a sense of belonging; Sufficient resources to meet basic needs; Life goals and experiences, now and to look forward to; Good health and feeling fit; Having a comfortable house to live in; Having a pet that you love; Having a purpose in life.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“Reason and science will replace myth and religion. Understanding ourselves, and building new support structures that enable us to continue to do so, will replace or transform the religious support structures.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“Enlightenment will triumph over age-old beliefs and faiths, in a movement to accelerate our development in science, philosophy, physics, human origins, evolutions, and purpose.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“These stories were told over and over again, with the storyteller always ready to embellish them with just a little more color and imagination in order to entice his audience.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“It is not surprising, then, that these human groups first set foot on the path of religion; it was a way to explain the world. It was, and remains, a way for people to reconcile the irreconcilable and keep existing themselves, a way to find solace in the uncertainty of a world filled with death.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“murdered with little or no impunity,”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“One remarkable aspect of these epics is the use of the Socratic way of teaching, as compared to didactic teaching. The Abrahamic religions mostly use didactic teaching: in other words, these are the answers and this is the way, period; go and learn these. The Hindu epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana, however, ask numerous questions and debate issues between individuals with opposing viewpoints, in order to illustrate ideas and rational thinking. This allows the individual to understand the issues and more easily place them into the proper context.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“Our own sense of self-worth refuses to accept that our existence is a wonderful accident, and that there is no true purpose in it, except for the purposes we make for ourselves.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“I dream of a world where reason, science, and justice will prevail for each and every one of us.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“Children of religious parents have the religious attitudes of their parents, and often they believe them regardless of the facts of the matter.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“eventually, most individuals (now as then) realized that after death, the world would continue on without them. But why shouldn’t there be eternal life? Perhaps there is, if we can just access it. This longing to become part of the world again, rather than vanish into nothingness, gave rise to all the varied beliefs in the afterlife.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“Our inevitable deaths, and the deaths of our loved ones, act as primary motivators for the survival of our gods, because the religions built around them provide consolation and answer the eternal Why? that humans shout at the world. Our own sense of self-worth refuses to accept that our existence is a wonderful accident, and that there is no true purpose in it, except for the purposes we make for ourselves.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“superstitions are beliefs without scientific proof or reason. So why is superstition so widespread even today, when repeatable, verifiable science underlies and supports most of our society?”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“The story of Moses is very similar to the myth of Sargon of Agade, the founder of Babylon, who was also put in a basket and laid on the river”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“When Moses led the Hebrews out of Egypt and went up the mountain to revere his God, the tribe got tired of waiting for him to return and cast a golden calf as one of their gods. If one accepts the Biblical accounts as true, then at this stage the Hebrew people were still polytheistic in nature, and easily returned to this tendency. The Hebrew people yearned for a leader to lead them out of Egypt. Soon Moses will fulfill this task as told by the Bible.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists

“Among the most fundamental Buddhist teachings are the four noble truths: Life leads to suffering and pain in one way or another; Our suffering is the result of our desire and craving for worldly pleasures; Our suffering ends only when we liberate ourselves from our desires and cravings; To reach this liberated state, we must follow the path provided by Buddha.”
― Albert Williams, Why Our Children Will Be Atheists