Militant Atheism Quotes

“...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet.”
― Linus Pauling

“I'll tell you plainly - I don't believe in a supreme being, but if you do, and your belief helps you be a better human, I'll fight for your belief till my last breath. But if your belief is your excuse for intolerance and fanaticism, then you're my child, and I am your judgment.

The same goes for those intellectual buffoons who take logic as licence to condescension. Militant atheists and religious fundamentalists are both animal retards - they belong in a museum of medieval and modern artifacts, not on civilized streets.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Till we end militant atheism, there is no Humanism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Militant atheism is the antithesis of humanism. Fundamentalism is the antithesis of religion. Nationalism is the antithesis of peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“There's nothing uglier than an ugly mouth, there's nothing filthier than a filthy heart. I have said many a times - extreme logic ruins the sweetness of life, just like extreme of faith ruins all common sense, and facilitates superstition. That's why you gotta be grown up enough to practice the human balance between logic and fiction, even if it means attracting mockery from militant atheists as well as religious fundamentalists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“All in The Mind (The Sonnet)

God is all in the mind,
What's wrong with that!
Art is also all in the mind,
So, is art nothing but dirt!

Yes, plenty harm has been done,
In the name of God.
The same can be said,
About science and art.

Dividers will always divide,
Haters will always hate.
Apes will find one excuse or another,
To justify their authoritarian trait.

For example, 9/11 wasn't religion's fault,
Any more than Hiroshima was science's fault.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“9/11 wasn't religion's fault, any more than Hiroshima was science's fault.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Memorize some creeds, and you're religious.
Memorize some facts, and you're intellectual.
The former is religion of the old world jungle,
The latter is religion of the new world jungle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“The God Undelusion, Sonnet

God is the greatest undelusion of all,
but only when you find it in the living,
while it's the desecrator of lives, when
you revere or refute from either extreme.

God is like Schrodinger's cat,
one moment it's there, the next it's not -
all depends on the state of mind -
there's no divine outside human eyes.

I see my God in people,
in their happiness God smiles.
Obliterate people from the world,
and you exterminate God like termite.

World is my church, the persecuted are my deity.
God faith is interfaith, human welfare is my priority.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Faith is A Private Pill (Sonnet)

Faith is a private pill, not public law;
belief is a personal mechanism, not a mandate.
I am not a religious figure, but a human one;
only gospel I offer is the gospel of tolerance.

I stand not to dehumanize, but to dedogmatize,
yet to entitled bigots it always feels dehumanizing.
In my world, science is philosophy is theology is poetry,
beyond the grasp of your fractured compartmentalizing.

Ivory tower of belief and ivory tower of logic,
are both equally antithetical to life's delicacies.
We gotta bring belief down from the sky into the soil,
and logic down from the tower onto the streets.

Live deeply, love madly, indulge moderately;
remember, vengeance is not power, but paralysis.
Love is not an emotion, love is existence;
tolerance is not a faculty, it's consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Life is Nonbiblical, Truth is Nonbinary
(Sonnet 2349-2350)

Atheism is a white european invention,
outside the shortsighted gutter
of eurocentrism there are people who don't
need to believe in a creator to be holy,

you can be sacred without being superstitious,
the human world is teeming with such cultures
where life is holy, duty is holy, laughter is holy,
but of course your whitewashed, eurocentric
little intellect cannot fathom nonduality -

that's why you mustn't confuse intellect with wisdom,
some of the brilliant minds are first class idiots,
their binary brains have zero capacity for nuance,
they confuse the backwater fiction-centric narrative
of the church to be the entire lifespring of theology,

so naturally, either they believe like sheep
or reject like robot, because in a world of sheep
and cyborgs either there is god or there is not,
either you submit to blind faith or icecold logic,
there is no place for heart, humanity and tolerance!

Not Christ, but church doctrine was
a major downgrade in theology existing
hundreds and thousands of years prior,
at the same time, european reductionism
was a major downgrade in a wholesome
life-centric understanding of truth.

We need a life-centric understanding of truth,
not truth-centric understanding of life -
we need a human-centric realization of divine,
not divine-centric realization of human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Superstition in Our Marrow (Sonnet 2428)

Earth is a planet of apes,
ivory tower apes diss faith out of reason,
pulpit apes diss reason out of faith -

then there are the newage apes,
chasing goat yoga, chakra penetration,
fortune cards, and aura farming,
who diss both conventional religion
and science, for they've found a more
self-absorbed method of hallucination.

Superstition runs through the marrow
of the human race, with each new generation
it merely changes costume.
Religion is superstition,
intellect is superstition,
newage spirituality is superstition -

from the sharpest of reason to the blindest of faith,
eventually all end up in superstition,
because in pursuit of a meaning higher than life,
we get disconnected from simple miracles of nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I'm done trying to please everybody,
the academic robot,
the religious fanatic,
the newage crackpot -
I'm done tiptoeing on eggshells.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The meaning of science is service, the meaning of faith is service, the meaning of office is service, if you forget this simple truth, your bible, koran, vedas - creation, evolution, constitution, all are useless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Dehumanization always comes bearing the badge of religion, and waving the flag of reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“The White Delusion (Naskaristana 2912)

Reason is fundamental, but there is a difference
between militant, imperial rationalism and human reason,
develop your character till you can tell them apart -

because militant rationalism often ends up violating
human welfare, just as religious fanaticism does,
except it does so under the banner of ivory logic,
or to be specific, white eurocentric logic.

Militant rationalism is suitable for a cold,
technocratic, mechanistic society, but for
a warm, humane society you must never let parasites
nest in your brain, whether they come waving the
flag of intolerant religion or intolerant reason.

Treat those parasites like lost sheep,
be as condescending as you can,
be ridiculously patronizing,
without actually being bitter,
treat them like the toddler they are,
lost in the white delusion of dualism.

Don't harm either fanatics, don't cuss them,
just bring them flower, and wish them a swift recovery!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Never let parasites nest in your brain, whether they come waving the flag of intolerant religion or intolerant reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Reason is fundamental, but there is a difference between militant, imperial rationalism and human reason, develop your character till you can tell them apart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don’t harm either fanatics (militant atheists and religious fanatics), don’t cuss them, just bring them flower, and wish them a swift recovery!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Reason is fundamental, but there is a difference between militant, imperial rationalism and human reason, develop your character till you can tell them apart – because militant rationalism often ends up violating human welfare, just as religious fanaticism does, except it does so under the banner of ivory logic, or to be specific, white eurocentric logic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“White people must be seen, not heard (Sonnet 2913)

In matters of human rights,
white people must be seen, not heard;

In matters of ethics and morality,
white people must be seen, not heard;

In matters of reason and righteousness,
white people must be seen, not heard;

In matters of philosophy and theology,
white people must be seen, not heard;

unless you've proven beyond the shadow of
a doubt, with every ounce of your existence,
that you value humanity more than you
value your faith, your intellect, your philosophy,
and every aspect of your whitewashed identikit.

White is not a color, white is a mindset,
and every person infected by that mindset
is a potential threat to the human race,
as such they must be crowdfunded with
immediate psychiatric treatment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Beware of fanatics bearing good news, but also beware of aristocrats bearing reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Helper First, Clever Later
(Sonnet 3115-3116)

Rationalism is also a belief system,
a belief system that prioritizes logic
over anything else, which has its use,
but when devoid of empathy
rationalism is as useless as blind faith.

Militant rationalism,
often synonymous with militant atheism,
only empowers the industry of quacks,
because ivory tower philosophy
aloof from the struggles of life
is just intellectual make believe,
which only strengthens superstition, through
its xenophobic treatment of human frailty -

militant atheism is to overfed aristocratic twits
what manifestation is to rich whitewashed women.

Try telling a starving child, hunger is illusion;
try telling a refugee, safety is delusion;
philosophy detached from life is a sign
of moral degeneration, not illumination -
intelligence detached from empathy
is the ultimate delusion.

Or better yet, come close,
let me stuff your ugly militant mouth
with a handful of scorching hot chili peppers,
then let me give you a five hour lecture
on the chemistry of H2O and its relation to life,
before offering you a glass of water.

First compassion, then rationalism;
first humanity, then philosophy -
otherwise, you need psychiatric treatment
as much as religious fanatics do.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Militant atheism is to overfed aristocratic twits what manifestation is to rich whitewashed women.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Good Superstition (Sonnet 3163-3164)

We all need some superstition in our life,
I say superstition because I want to be blunt,
no ambiguity, we all need some superstition,
for most part they are therapeutic,

so don't try to explain it with scientific jargon,
because that's when your superstition becomes delusion.

Life is a symposium of symbols,
all work as psychological reinforcement mechanism -

a flag is just cloth,
a ring is just metal,
a photograph is just paper and pixels,
a grave is just earth and stone,
yet they hold the emotional weight
of an entire universe -

life's meaning doesn't depend on empirical falsification,
purpose of empiricism is to help treat harmful prejudice,
not to eliminate every little irrationality from life -

the moment you demand every human experience
pass a laboratory test before it is allowed
emotional legitimacy, you haven't proven you're
more rational, you've proven you're less human.

Symbols need neither rational evidence
nor supernatural powers to hold human meaning -
just like there is such a thing as helpful bacteria,
there is such a thing as therapeutic superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Life is a symposium of symbols, all work as psychological reinforcement mechanism -

a flag is just cloth,
a ring is just metal,
a photograph is just paper and pixels,
a grave is just earth and stone,
yet they hold the emotional weight
of an entire universe -

life's meaning doesn't depend on empirical falsification, purpose of empiricism is to help treat harmful prejudice, not to eliminate every little irrationality from life -

the moment you demand every human experience pass a laboratory test before it is allowed emotional legitimacy, you haven't proven you're more rational, you've proven you're less human.

Just like there is such a thing as helpful bacteria, there is such a thing as therapeutic superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Purpose of empiricism is to help treat harmful prejudice, not to eliminate every little irrationality from life - the moment you demand every human experience pass a laboratory test before it is allowed emotional legitimacy, you haven't proven you're more rational, you've proven you're less human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Religious fundamentalists, xenophobic nationalists, and militant atheists, are all cut from the same cloth, the cloth of cantankerous dogma, sometimes they come dressed in ceremonial religious garb, sometimes in aristocratic intellectual suits.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“When you reach the mountaintop you no longer want to convert people, nor do you want to take away their god - in fact, erase any religion and any science that requires another human to be less human for you to be religious or scientific.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Erase any religion and any science that requires another human to be less human for you to be religious or scientific.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human