"The end product of atheist humanism is the modern totalitarian state, in which the illusion of man's metaphysical freedom from divine government goes hand in hand with the reality of his political subjection."

J. V. L. Casserley, Retreat from Christianity in the Modern World, 1952 

"Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a 
universal negative."

G.K. Chesterton, Source: Charles II, Twelve Types

"If there were no God, there would be no atheists."

G.K. Chesterton, Source: Where All Roads Lead
"It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right."

Robert Lewis Dabney 

"I was at this time living like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of 
contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for 
not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world."

C.S. Lewis, Surprised By Joy [1955], Chapter 7

"...[When I was an atheist] my argument against God was that the universe seemed cruel 
and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust?  A man does not call a line 
crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.  What was I comparing this universe 
with when I called it unjust?  If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so 
to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent
reaction against it? ... Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist
-- in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless -- I found I was forced to 
assume that one part of reality -- namely my idea of justice -- was full of sense. 
Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, 
we should never have found out thatit has no meaning."

C.S. Lewis

"British sportsman Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) wrote, 'The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are health, wealth, and power.' America as a whole, and many Americans individually, had them all in 2000. If we had read the Bible more, we could have been reassured by Horace Greeley's statement that 'It is impossible to enslave mentally and socially a Bible-reading people.' But even though 92 percent of American households own at least one Bible and the average household owns three, a Gallup survey showed that fewer than half of Americans knew the name of the Bible's first book."

Marvin Olasky
"Sometimes when I'm faced with an unbeliever, an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook."

Ronald Reagan
"God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore, to argue that God exists is to deny him."

Paul Tillich

"Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality."

Cornelius Van Til (1895-1987)

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