Is Atheism Really Good Enough for these Idiots?
This is a popular poster, on the internet, on which are some of the most famous apparent atheists ever to have been alive. These include Ernest Hemmingway, Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sagan, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklyn, Albert Einstein, and Charles Darwin. With them, are the words “Atheism Good enough for these idiots.” Evidently, atheism is for intellectuals. But in reality, most of these men were not atheists.
Abraham Lincon said, "My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." Abraham Lincon was not an atheist.
Neither was Carl Sagan, who declared, "I'm an agnostic."
Mark Twain, though he hated religion, was not an atheist. “None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good," said Twain.
Benjamin Franklin admitted, “God governs in the affairs of men.”
Thomas Edison has been known as a popular atheist around the globe, but an atheist he was not. Edison stated, “There is a great directing head of people and things — a Supreme Being who looks after the destinies of the world.”
Thomas Jefferson said, "Say nothing of my religion. It is known to myself and my God alone.”
Albert Einstein rejected the Bible as the Word of God, but he was not an atheist. He said that the Creator was unknowable, and that God being personal was “childlike.” He added, “In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human understanding, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views.” He then said, “I am not an atheist." Einstein, when referring to those who denied the Creator, used the term “fanatical atheists.”
And Charles Darwin spoke of God seven times in "Origin of Species."
Ultimately, out of the eight famous supposed athiests, only one was truly against the existence of a God. That was Ernest Hemmingway. As claimed by his biographer, in 1961, Hemmingway "pushed two shells into the twelve-gauge Boss shotgun... put the end of the barrel into his mouth, pulled the trigger and blew out his brains."