What did Albert Camus think about religion?

What did Albert Camus think about religion?

Albert Camus was an existentialist. He was also not a religious person and even though he was born and raised a Catholic; he soon quit his religious faith and turned into an atheist, believing that religion was “philosophical suicide”.

Who said if there is a God?

Dear Quote Investigator: Famous author Mark Twain was grief-stricken when his daughter Susy died at age 24. The following expression of bitter despair has been ascribed to him: If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

Is Camus religious?

Moreover, Albert Camus is today’s most articulate non- Christian thinker. To characterize Camus as a religious- moral philosopher means to say that his preoccupation is with questions of the nature and meaning of men, their hopes, their possibilities, and their destiny.

Does Camus believe in God?

Nevertheless, his philosophy explicitly rejects religion as one of its foundations. Not always taking an openly hostile posture towards religious belief—though he certainly does in the novels The Stranger and The Plague—Camus centers his work on choosing to live without God.

Who said I would rather live my life as if there is a God?

Albert Camus Quotes I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Would you pray the same oh God if there is God save my soul if there is soul?

Ernest Renan Quote: “The prayer of the agnostic: “O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul.””

Was Camus a Marxist?

Camus joined the French Communist Party (PCF) in early 1935. He saw it as a way to “fight inequalities between Europeans and ‘natives’ in Algeria,” even though he was not a Marxist. He explained: “We might see communism as a springboard and asceticism that prepares the ground for more spiritual activities.”