Religion is all bunk. — Thomas A. Edison
Then why did you tell me? — Annie Dillard
All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway
With soap, baptism is a good thing. — Robert Green Ingersoll
All religions have been made by men. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is the opium of the masses. — Karl Marx
Belief is the death of intelligence. — Robert Anton Wilson
Atheism is a non-prophet organization. — George Carlin
Where knowledge ends, religion begins. — Benjamin Disraeli
Faith: not wanting to know what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. — Benjamin Franklin
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. — George Orwell
God is a concept by which we measure our pain. — John Lennon
Political correctness is tyranny with manners. — Charlton Heston
Gods always behave like the people who make them. — Zora Neale Hurston
Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be. — Frank Zappa
A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism. — Dion Fortune
If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease! — Clark Adams
Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses. — Arthur C. Clarke
I don’t know anyone less Jesus like than Christians. — Bill Maher
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities. — Voltaire
For good people to do evil things, it takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her. — Arthur C. Clarke
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The hands that help are better far than lips that pray. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions. — Jerry Falwell
To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition. — Woody Allen
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. — Noam Chomsky
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. — James Kern Feibleman
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth. — Albert Einstein
My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own. — William O. Douglas
Religion is “so absurd that it comes close to imbecility.” — H. L. Mencken
Why should we believe in a god, that doesnt believe in us? — Marilyn Manson
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. — John Buchan
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. — Voltaire
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. — Thomas Jefferson
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. — Thomas Jefferson
The family that prays together…is brainwashing their children. — Albert Einstein
There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. — Frank Zappa
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. — Madalyn Murray O’Hair
Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man? — Friedrich Nietzsche
I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job. — George W. Bush
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. — Jon Stewart
Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true. — Albert Einstein
I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. — Douglas Adams
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. — Horace Walpole
Born again?! No, I’m not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time. — Dennis Miller
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. — Christopher Hitchens
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. — Thomas Paine
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. — Christopher Marlowe
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. — Ruth Hurmence Green
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. — Frederick Douglass
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. — Isaac Asimov
In the ‘bullshit department’ a businessman can’t hold a candle to a clergyman. — George Carlin
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. — Edmond de Goncourt
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. — John Adams
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. — Stendhal
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is in every village a torch – the teacher; and an extinguisher – the priest. — Victor Hugo
It’s fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza. — Penn Jillette
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it. — George Carlin
From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. — Albert Einstein
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky. — George Carlin
I’m proud to be an atheist – it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less. — Dan Barker
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. — Mark Twain
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot
Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers. — Rabia Basri
Even though I don’t personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching. — Christopher Reeve
The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit. — Richard Pryor
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. — George Carlin
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. — Seneca the Younger
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. — Peter O’Toole
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. — Richard Francis Burton
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. — Edward Abbey
If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. — Albert Einstein
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. — Abraham Lincoln
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. — Denis Diderot
Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. — Albert Einstein
I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind. — Javed Akhtar
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies. — Benjamin Franklin
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of. — Mark Twain
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? — Woody Allen
I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. — Thomas A. Edison
The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. — Al-Maʿarri
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. — Bertrand Russell
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. — Richard Lederer
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. — Ambrose Bierce
It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. — Mark Twain
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. — Eric Hoffer
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. — Robert A. Heinlein
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. — Charles Darwin
The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. — Richard Dawkins
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. — Albert Einstein
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. — James Madison
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. — Carl Sagan
Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him. — Richard B. Garnett
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. — Kurt Vonnegut
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion – several of them. — Mark Twain
The word ‘Christianity’ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. — C. S. Lewis
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? — Mark Twain
You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe — Carl Sagan
Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them. — Jose Antonio Carrillo
I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living. — Myla Goldberg
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason. — Baron d’Holbach
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. — Bill Gates
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. — George Bernard Shaw
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. — Douglas Adams
No, I don’t know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God. — George H. W. Bush
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents’ religion is the worst of all reasons – pure child abuse. — Richard Dawkins
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma. — Abraham Lincoln
The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. — Douglas Adams
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance. — Theodore Dreiser
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. — Galileo Galilei
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn’t been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. — Catherine Fahringer
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there’s any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. — Mahatma Gandhi
No man will say, “There is no God” ’till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account. — Matthew Henry
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. — Karl Marx
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. — Mark Twain
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration – courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. — H. L. Mencken
If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it’s okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water — Mads Mikkelsen
You don’t need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life. — Jacque Fresco
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. — Robert A. Heinlein
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. — Thomas Jefferson
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. — Albert Einstein
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. — Bertrand Russell
“Believe nothing,
No matter where you read it,
Or who has said it,
Not even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.” — Gautama Buddha
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time. — Isaac Asimov
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. — C. S. Lewis
Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules. — Christopher Hitchens
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. — Robert Green Ingersoll
When it comes to bullshit…bigtime, major league bullshit…you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims…religion. — George Carlin
Hmmm, completely a-religious – atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both. — Linus Torvalds
There are certain occupations – probably, most prominently, politics – where there would be a bias against somebody who’s agnostic or atheist in running for office. — Barack Obama
How do I know the Bible isn’t the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand…considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE! — Bill Hicks
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
In other words, they decided right from the start that there’s no God, and they’re setting out to try to prove that there’s no God, … That’s their bias to start with. — Ken Ham
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy. — Dan Barker
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all. — Baron d’Holbach
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. — Thomas Jefferson
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes. — Salman Rushdie
…It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. — Thomas Paine
Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. — Albert Einstein
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we’ll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it. — Rob Bell
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. — Abraham Lincoln
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. — Robert Anton Wilson
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. — Thomas Paine
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing. — John Dewey
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. — Thomas Jefferson
What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness? — Herman Melville
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?’ — Quentin Crisp
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? …Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God. — Thomas Jefferson
Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity? — Arthur C. Clarke
We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out. — Adolf Hitler
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings. — Garrett Hardin
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. — Thomas Paine
I think this word ‘disbelieve’ would be the best of all possible worlds if everybody were an atheist or an agnostic or a humanist – his or her own particular brand – but as for compelling people to this, absolutely not. — Madalyn Murray O’Hair
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness… It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast. — Mark Twain
I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them. — Galileo Galilei
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
A person isn’t considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn’t supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it’s a religion. — Robert M. Pirsig
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. — Gautama Buddha
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. — Albert Einstein
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. — Sigmund Freud
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. — Albert Einstein
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance…logic can be happily tossed out the window. — Stephen King
Let’s drop the whole ‘atheist evangelism’ thing and call out bullshit questions like ‘what does atheism have to offer?’ for just what they are: Bullshit. I mean, what does knowing that the Earth goes around the Sun have to offer? Who cares? It just is. — Rebecca Watson
The media challenged me. `You’re not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?’ My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.’ — Pat Roberts
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I’d be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. — Carl Sagan
I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it. — A.J. Ayer
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy – the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man – endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame. — Thomas Jefferson
The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it is, but the heart of man. That is why atheism is so bankrupt as a view of life, for it miserably fails to deal with the human condition as it really is. — Ravi Zacharias
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. — Madalyn Murray O’Hair
Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing “Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!” If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept. — Dan Barker
Communism is as Jewish as the Mafia is Italian. It’s a fact that almost all of the convicted spies for communism have been atheist Jews like the Rosenbergs. And international communism was invented by the Jew Karl Marx and has since been led mostly by Jews – like Trotsky. — George Lincoln Rockwell
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon. — Jacques Maritain
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? — Mark Twain
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. — Aristotle
I spend most of my time speaking to people who totally disagree with me. I speak to gays, I speak to atheists, I speak to secularists, I speak to Muslims because I am trying to build a bridge between my heart and theirs so Jesus can walk across and they can come to know Christ. — Rick Warren
In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We’re only one God away from total agreement. — Michael Shermer
Let’s face a historical truth: we have never had a “free market”, we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with “big government” when it served their needs. — Howard Zinn
I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I’d ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing. — Madalyn Murray O’Hair
To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator. God indicts those who worship the creation instead of its Creator (Rom 1:18-23); and warns of the corruption of morals and behavior which results. — Dave Hunt
The Omen is one of my favorites. Even though I’m an atheist now, I was brought up Catholic and can remember thinking that it could actually be real! The first Dawn of the Dead is a great one. We had a TV serial in Britain called Day of the Triffids and that was always really terrifying for me as well. — Nick Frost
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. — Isaac Asimov
“””I refuse to prove that I exist”” says God, “”for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.””
“”Oh,”” says man, “”but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn’t it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don’t. Q.E.D.””
“”Oh, I hadn’t thought of that,”” says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.” — Douglas Adams
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it. — Robert A. Heinlein
Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people’s minds. — Neal Stephenson
I’m an atheist, I always thought, ‘This is it.’ If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I’m fairly stoic about death, but I’m not keen on dying if it’s going to be long and protracted. I don’t have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I’m such a little busy bee. — Edmund White
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that’s okay, he’s God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite. — Dennis McKinsey
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by ‘God,’ one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying… it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity. — Carl Sagan
But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability and giving them some sort of false confidence. The different is that while Catholicism has an abundance of intellectual underpinnings to support its arguments, anti-Catholicism and atheist have few if any. — Michael Coren
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. — Richard Dawkins
