|
The
fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is
no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober
one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. - |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
He who says "The United
States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and
beliefs" is woefully ignorant of history. The United States was founded
by Deists, and the puritan settlers were but one immigrant group among many. |
44th
President Dem-To-Be-Named-Later United States |
|
If I got a special power for every
dead baby I wish I could have saved, I'd be God... But I guess it doesn't
matter since if I was God, I wouldn't bother saving babies' lives anyway. |
A. V. |
|
The
world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and
religious men without intelligence.
- |
Abu’l‐Ala al Ma’arri |
|
Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas
inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the
best evidence available. Which should we have faith in? |
Alan
Harvey |
|
The nazis
slaughtered millions because they dehumanized their victims... but when it
comes to dehumanizing victims the most useful and most widely used tool
throughout history is, of course, religion. |
Alan
Harvey |
|
The most important questions a
human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not
simply the most comforting? |
Alan
Harvey |
|
A
man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education,
and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a
poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward
after death |
Albert
Einstein |
|
Two things are infinite: the
universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the
universe. |
Albert
Einstein |
|
Why do you write to me "God
should punish the English"? I have no close connection to either one or
the other. I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His
children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be
held |
Albert
Einstein |
|
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 contemplation of this world
beckoned as a liberation (...) The road to this paradise was not as
comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has
shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it |
Albert
Einstein |
|
It was, of course, a lie what you
read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically
repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but
have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be calle... [more] |
Albert Einstien |
|
"Facts do not cease to exist because
they are ignored." |
Aldous Huxley |
|
To
really be free, You need to be free in the mind. - |
Alexander Loutsis |
|
If God
were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He
would kill Himself. - |
Alexandre Dumas |
|
What is god actually doing to help
innocent babies that are dying slow, painful deaths? He's busy working in
mysterious ways no doubt... |
Allah Verpint |
|
No wonder religion is popular.
It's the only pretending game adults can play and expect to get taken
seriously by other adults... Well, at least by other adults who like
pretending too. |
Allah verpint |
|
Belief might "soften the
hardships" and offer "consolation" but that doesn't mean there
is a God. Religion is wishful thinking. Give me reality, warts and all, and
I'll cope with it using reason and logic NOT delusion. |
Allah Verpint |
|
If I had your imaginary god's
powers... I couldn't care less if anyone worshipped me or how they lived (as
long as they were good to others) I'd be more worried about innocent children
and babies suffering. |
Allah Verpint |
|
The idiots killing people in
Mumbai honestly think they're going to heaven for it... while the relatives
of the victims console themselves their loved ones are going to heaven... and
the truth is they're all just dead. Ain't religion
great? |
Allah Verpint |
|
Religion is a bit like porn: You
know deep down it's all lies but still buy it. It's a multi-billion dollar
industry making a few people very rich. It distorts reality, inciting desires
it never satisfies. AND the scripts it's based on are always crap... |
Allah Verpint |
|
Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of
the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly
unworthy. |
Ambrose
Bierce |
|
Religion, n: A daughter of Hope
and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. |
Ambrose
Bierce |
|
Religions are conclusions for
which the facts of nature supply no major premises |
Ambrose
Bierce |
|
If I wanted to spend my life
believing in something - it would be myself. |
Andrew
Simpson |
|
you could spend a lifetime
studying a religion, study two and you will be done within the hour. |
andyc |
|
Eskimo: "If I did not know
about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did
not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" |
Annie
Dillard, 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek' |
|
No
philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as
this good news of Atheism. - |
Annie Wood Besant |
|
Philosophy
is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never
be questioned. – |
Anonymous |
|
Since
the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came
from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going? – |
Anonymous |
|
Two
hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. – |
Anonymous |
|
Blind
faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. – |
Anonymous |
|
On the
first day, man created God. – |
Anonymous |
|
Give a
man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for
a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. – |
Anonymous |
|
Religion
has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than
any other single idea. – |
Anonymous |
|
A
believer states everything must have a creator but fail to say how he was
created. – |
Anonymous |
|
If all
the Christians who have called other Christians “not really a Christian” were
to vanish, there’d be no Christians left.
– |
Anonymous |
|
Absolute
faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power but absolute power is corrupt
only in the hands of the absolutely faithful.
– |
Anonymous |
|
I have
no need for religion, I have a conscience.
– |
Anonymous |
|
The
finality of death is the coldest truth one must face. Religion makes the
perfect distraction. – |
Anonymous |
|
Atheists
will celebrate life, while you’re in church celebrating death. – |
Anonymous |
|
Most
religions prophecy the end of the world and then consistently work together
to ensure that these prophecies come true.
– |
Anonymous |
|
Jesus
hardly made the greatest sacrifice. He knew he would be resurrected anyway. – |
Anonymous |
|
Religions
are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. – |
Anonymous |
|
The
Bible - A Fairytale book of rules brainwashing millions. Obliviously used to
help create war, kill, hate, judge and discriminate. – |
Anonymous |
|
I would rather die than to follow
the orders of a sexist, intolerant, homophobic, violent old man. |
Arif Iqbal |
|
I
would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice
whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own
homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. |
Arthur
C. Clarke |
|
I wonder
who got the shit job of scouring the planet for the 15000 species of
butterfly or the 8800 species of ant they eventually took on board Noah’s
Ark. But at least we got that magical rainbow for all their trouble. - |
Azura Skye |
|
Why is everyone so in touch with God so out-of-touch with
the truth? |
Baron von Knifty |
|
If the bible is to be taken literally. then “Be fruitful
and multiply” refers to homosexual mathematicians. |
Baron von Knifty |
|
Finding direction in your life by
subscribing to the existence of an entity you can't see. That just seems a
bit counterintuitive. |
Ben Longwell |
|
Religion is man-made to assist in
controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and
despair they feel strength in numbers |
Benito
Il DUCA Mussolini |
|
The
way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason |
Benjamin
Franklin |
|
And if there were a God, I think it very
unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those
who doubt His existence |
Bertrand
Russell |
|
So far as I can remember, there is
not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence |
Bertrand
Russell |
|
I would never die for my beliefs
because I might be wrong. |
Bertrand
Russell |
|
Many orthodox people speak as
though it were the business of sceptics to disprove
received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course,
a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a
china teapot revol... [more] |
Bertrand
Russell |
|
They believe the bible is the
exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, hu huh? "I think what God meant to say..." |
Bill
Hicks |
|
People ask me what I think about
that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great.
Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to. |
Bill
Hicks |
|
Men
never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious
convictions |
Blaise Pascal |
|
A clamor for 'family values'
requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families. |
Bob
Allen |
|
You don't count the dead, when
god's on your side |
Bob
Dylan |
|
I refuse to believe in a god that
would send me to hell just for not believing in him. |
Bob Snuka |
|
I refuse to believe in a god that
would send me to hell just for not believing in him. |
Bob Snuka |
|
|
brainwashed them. Or. |
|
When I was a child I had an
imaginary friend to whom I talked. Then I grew up and became an atheist. |
British
comedian (sorry I forgot the name) |
|
God
should be executed for crimes against humanity.
- |
Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez |
|
God should be executed for crimes
against humanity. |
Bryan
Emmanuel Gutierrez |
|
You
keep believing, I'll keep evolving |
Bumper
sticker |
|
Stop lying to children - Break the
cycle of religion |
Bumper
sticker |
|
Born right the first time |
Bumper
sticker |
|
question everything or believe
anything |
bumper
sticker |
|
Nothing Fails Like Prayer |
Bumper
sticker |
|
Darwin Loves You |
Bumper
sticker |
|
Theists aren't stupid... they're
perfectly capable of seeing the truth of atheism. They just cling to belief
because it's more comforting than reality. In other words... they're too
immature. |
Bwian of Nazaweth |
|
So Jesus is the Good Shepherd.
Well, you know what the shepherd does with his flock? Shears them and then
turns them into mutton. |
C.A.M. |
|
|
–Cardinal Bellarmine,
1615, during the trial of Galileo |
|
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 |
|
Extraordinary
claims require extraordinary evidence |
Carl
Sagan |
|
Atheism is more than just the
knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a
fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world
objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part ...
[more] |
Carl Sagan |
|
Life is but a momentary glimpse of
the wonder of the astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming
it away on spiritual fantasy. |
Carl
Sagan |
|
Religion
does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes
people. - |
Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney |
|
Religion
does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes
people. |
Carlespie Mary Alice
McKinney |
|
God did not create us. It is us
that created God. |
Casey
Yano |
|
Gods are fragile things; they may
be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense |
Chapman
Cohen |
|
The existance
of G W Bush is the proof against intelligent design. |
Charles Stonehouse V |
|
Christianity is the boistrous, over bearing bully that shouts his opponents
down. He p... [more] |
|
|
What
can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. - |
Christopher Hitchens |
|
What can be asserted without proof
can be dismissed without proof |
Christopher
Hitchens |
|
I don’t
believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose - |
Clarence Darrow |
|
If Atheism is a religion, then
health is a disease! |
Clark
Adams |
|
I never understood religion until
I witnessed a shackled man being beaten into submission. "Trust
me," said the torturer, "when you tell me what I want to hear, the
suffering will stop." |
Cobra32 |
|
How difficult would it be for 11
men to hang a traitor, move a boulder, remove a body, and replace said
boulder within a period of three days? |
Cogito |
|
The Pope doesn't believe in God;
Did you ever see a conjurer who believed in Magic ? |
Coluche |
|
So you really think that God would plant a
bunch of bones in the earth to test your faith? Either you're in denial or
God has some serious self-esteem issues. |
Coral
Yoshi |
|
If god was all knowing, would he
not know I would become an Atheist? And would he not stop me from becoming
one? Or does he want me to goto 'Hell'? |
Dan |
|
I'm a polyatheist
- there are many gods I don't believe in. |
Dan Fouts |
|
I have
observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from
pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and
ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at
the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. - |
Daniel Boorstin |
|
The greatest obstacle to discovery
is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. |
Daniel Boorstin |
|
"All religions are cults of
varying degrees." |
Daryl Elliott |
|
I often get letters, quite
frequently, from people who say how they like the programs a lot, but I never
give credit to the almighty power that created nature, to which I reply and
say, "Well, it's funny that the people, when they say that this is of
t... [more] |
David
Attenborough |
|
You are about as likely to go to
heaven, as I am to go to hell. |
David Brenneman |
|
To explain the unknown by the
known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form
of theological lunacy |
David
Brooks (The Necessity of Atheism) |
|
Fundamentalism,
of any type, due to its prerequisite lack of intelligent thought, could prove
to be the worst weapon of mass destruction, of all. - |
David J. Constable |
|
It is a complete contradiction
that a righteous god would purposely create you imperfectly, and then expect
you to begin an impossible race to perfection and repentence
before death. |
David
Smalley |
|
Teenagers dressed in black no more
represent Atheists, than sexually abusive Catholic Priests represent all
religious people. |
David
Smalley |
|
A lie
is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody
believes it. - |
David Stevens |
|
Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people. - |
David Viaene |
|
The
invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. - |
Delos B. McKown |
|
Calling
Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. - |
Don Hirschberg |
|
Jesus' last words on the cross,
"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" hardly seem like the
words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to
figure there is something wrong here. |
Donald
Morgan |
|
Man invented God to deal with the
concept of infinity. |
Doon |
|
I still
say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. - |
Doug McLeod |
|
I
refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without
faith I am nothing. - |
Douglas Adams |
|
People
will then often say, ‘But surely it’s better to remain an Agnostic just in
case?’ This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I
usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it
turns out that I’ve been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if
it further turned out that this kind of legalistic,
cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian
hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him
anyway.) - |
Douglas Adams |
|
Isn’t
it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that
there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
- |
Douglas Adams |
|
Anyone who engages in the practice
of psycho-therapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the
teachings of religion. |
Dr.
Nathanial Branden |
|
Religion is the leading cause of
death throughout history. |
Dracos |
|
The World is divided into armed
camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy
tales to believe. |
Ed Krebs |
|
Hell would be to have to spend
eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there. |
Ed
Martin |
|
The most common explanation given
for death and destruction attributed to "Acts of God" is that God
is unknowable and beyond human understanding. That also happens to be the
very best description there is for what does not exist. |
Ed
Martin |
|
I am patient with stupidity, but
not with those who are proud of it. |
Edith
Sitwell |
|
Belief
in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. - |
Edward Abbey |
|
Did God make cancer? Malaria?
Natural disasters? Wow! He makes Hitler look like Mother Theresa! |
Ella Vanoise |
|
Why isn't god as sociable as he
used to be in the bible. I mean back then he used to show up for every
genocide and baby massacre. Nowadays you hardly ever see him anymore...well,
except for those times where he's appears to attention-starved old cat... [more] |
Emile de
Bergerac |
|
When
I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole
one and asked Him to forgive me. |
Emo Philips |
|
Is God
willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able,
but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then
whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? – |
Epicurus |
|
If there is a god religion is his
greatest joke |
Eric
Bettencourt, Portland maine |
|
Religion serves men as blinders
serve horses. |
Eric
Williams |
|
A great line from the only decent
religious movie ever made: "I'm Brian and so is my wife" |
Esiah Zakite |
|
Theists, just think about it: If
YOU had the power to make the universe in a few hours, would YOU let babies
die of hunger and disease? Any answers that aren't vague, evasive theological
nonsense would be appreciated. |
Esiah Zakite |
|
And on the trillionth day God
destroyed man, and He saw that it was good. |
Evan Gowing |
|
The
church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen
the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church |
Ferdinand
Magellan |
|
"A fanatic is a man who does
what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case." |
Finley
Peter Dunne |
|
Atheism
leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to
reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if
religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects
an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
- |
Francis Bacon |
|
I
believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
|
The essence of Christianity is
told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on
the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because
you wanted to find out what was going on. |
Frank
Zappa |
|
If you wind up with a boring,
miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your
priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE
IT. |
Frank
Zappa |
|
"Children are naďve -- they
trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the
vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble." |
Frank
Zappa |
|
Scientology, how about that? You
hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and
if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a
religion? |
Frank
Zappa |
|
A mind is like a parachute. It doesnt work if it not open. |
Frank
Zappa |
|
Just remember that there is a big
difference between knealing down and bending over. |
Frank
Zappa |
|
Faith does not give you the
answers, it just stops you asking the questions. |
Frater Ravus |
|
If you have to lie to prove what
you believe, then what you believe is a lie. |
Frater Ravus |
|
Faith
means not wanting to know what is true.
- |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
In
Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at
any point. - |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
Which
is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s? - |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
Convictions are more dangerous
enemies of truth than lies. |
Friedrich
Nietzsche |
|
I call Christianity the one great
curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge,
for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small
enough - I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race. |
Friedrich
Nietzsche |
|
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 |
|
"Faith... Must be enforced by
reason...When faith becomes blind it dies." |
Gandhi |
|
We must
question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who
creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. - |
Gene Roddenberry |
|
We must question the story logic of having
an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames
them for his own mistakes |
Gene Roddenberry |
|
They said God was on high and he
controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God
controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of
misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with |
Gene
Roddenberry |
|
To say that atheism requires faith
is as dim-witted as saying that disbelief in pixies or leprechauns takes
faith. Even if Einstein himself told me there was an elf on my shoulder, I
would still ask for proof and I wouldn't be wrong to ask. |
Geoff
Mather |
|
It's a pity Jesus remained so
silent before his accusers. He could have said: "Oh, by the way guys,
no-one should ever kill, torture, maim, burn alive or commit genocide in my
name." If he'd been a god he could have saved us all a lot of pain. |
Geoff
Mather |
|
Can I just pin you down a little
here? What exactly IS a god? You don't know. What is it made of? You don't
know. Where is it? You don't know. You learnt about it from a Bronze Age book
that claims truth for itself. And at your parents' knee. Is that w... [more] |
Geoff
Mather |
|
Some of the nicest, most caring
people I've met have been religious - from all sorts of different but
incompatible creeds. I don't hate them. I just hate the sad facts that they
are wrong, they waste their own time, and they want to grab my kids. |
Geoff
Mather |
|
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 |
|
No man ever believes that the
Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means. |
George
Bernard Shaw |
|
Atheism
is a non-prophet organization. - |
George Carlin |
|
Religion
has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the
sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the
invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do..
And if you do any... [more] |
George
Carlin |
|
Christians worship a dead Jew on a
stick. |
George
Carlin |
|
Interstingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun
and the prayers I formerly offered to God ar all
answered at about the same 50% rate |
George
Carlin |
|
In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act |
George
Orwell |
|
It will
yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the
Bible. - |
George W. Foote |
|
History
teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god. - |
Giulian Buzila |
|
History teaches us that no other cause has
brought more death than the word of god. |
Giulian Buzila |
|
*silence* |
God |
|
"On the first day, man
created God." |
gramma red |
|
If god existed he would agree with
the atheists. (si dieu existait il serai
de l'avis des ahtées). |
Guizmo |
|
The
sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail. |
Gustaf Lindborg |
|
Praying is like a rocking chair--
it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere |
Gypsy
Rose Lee |
|
We
must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the
extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children
smart |
H.
L. Mencken |
|
I believe that religion, generally
speaking, has been a curse to mankind--that its modest and greatly
overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by
the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. |
H. L.
Mencken |
|
"Puritanism- The haunting
fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." |
H. L.
Mencken |
|
Religion is "so absurd that
it comes close to imbecility." |
H. L.
Mencken |
|
God is Santa for adults... |
Haili |
|
So let me get this straight, the
unending, all-powerful force of creation that hand-made the universe funneled
himself into the body of a human fetus and then teleported the fetus into the
uterus of a married virgin. He then spent 30 years on earth wa... [more] |
Hank
Guerin |
|
The Christian god makes man human,
then burns him when he acts like one. |
HSM |
|
God creates dinosaurs. God
destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs... |
Ian
Malcolm |
|
To
surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it
remains premature today. - |
Isaac Asimov |
|
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 |
|
Properly
read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived. - |
Isaac Asimov |
|
Humanity has the stars in its
future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of
juvenile folly and ignorant superstition |
Isaac
Asimov |
|
Creationists don't want equal
time; they want all the time there is. |
Issac Asimov |
|
Religion
is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its
host in such a way as to propagate itself further. - |
Jack Pritchard |
|
If I was created in the image of
god, does that mean that I should impregnate a woman without her consent? |
James
Heaney |
|
What has been Christianity's
fruits? Supersition, Bigotry and Persecution |
James
Madison |
|
What have been [Christianity’s]
fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy,
ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and
persecution. |
James
Madison, 1785 |
|
"There are no atheists in
foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against
foxholes |
James
Morrow |
|
Gods are children's blankets that
get carried over into adulthood. |
James
Randi |
|
|
--James Watt, Secretary of the
Interior during the Regan years. |
|
Man will never be free until the
last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. |
Jean Meslier |
|
Existentialism isn't so atheistic
that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares
that even if God did exist, that would change nothing. |
Jean-Paul
Sartre |
|
Religion is a crutch for the weak
minded. |
Jesse
Ventura |
|
Man has
always required an explanation for all of those things in the world he did
not understand. If an explanation was not available, he created one. - |
Jim Crawford |
|
My sister once claimed she spun
out of control into oncoming traffic. When she looked up, she was in the
opposite lane and unharmed. She said that the hand of God moved from one lane
into the other - to save her. I replied, "If the hand of God cannot p...
[more] |
Joe |
|
This would be the best of all
possible worlds, if there were no religions in it. |
John
Adams |
|
"The government of the United
States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." |
John
Adams |
|
The
Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian
religion. |
John
Adams, 2nd President of the United States |
|
An atheist is a man who has no
invisible means of support. |
John
Buchan |
|
How can a person who is civil and
just but ask's for nothing in return be less
righteous than those behave justly, but only under threat, and for the aim of
a personal reward? |
John
Kelly |
|
Who are the bigger fool's, those
who are born stupid or those who choose stupidity? |
John
Kelly Ireland |
|
Religious people and donkey's: A
donkey is a simple creature it would follow a carrot on a stick, but it is
still capable, even with its most basic of intellect of determining when
there is no carrot. |
John
Kelly Ireland |
|
God is my shepard:
- Only sheep need a shepard |
John
Kelly Ireland |
|
God is Perfect: Perfect beings do
not experience anger or suprise towards a sequence
of events they knew of in advance. |
John
Kelly Ireland |
|
As a child you may be told that
when holding a sea shell to your ear that you can hear the sea. Those that
grow up realise that it is not the sea they are
hearing. |
John
Kelly Ireland |
|
Religion. It's given people hope
in a world torn apart by religion. |
Jon
Stewart (Daily Show) |
|
The day that we will truly reach
our potential as a civilization will be when everyone does to the idea of god
the same that they did to the idea of santa |
Jonathan
Barragan |
|
God is eternal because human
stupidity is infinite. |
joseph fuentes |
|
Why would some all powerful being
create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner
contrary to their creation? |
Josh
Charles |
|
If we are going to teach creation
science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork
theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. |
Judith
Hayes |
|
An
Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An
Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist
strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease
conquered, poverty vanished. |
Justin
Brown |
|
If
the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it
to tell us where we're going? |
Justin
Brown |
|
The death of dogma is the birth of
reality. |
KANT |
|
A God
who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with
human freedom and creativity was tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world
of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its
effect. he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all‐knowing
tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and
everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that
rejects such a God is amply justified.
- |
Karen Armstrong |
|
Religion
is the opiate of the masses. - |
Karl Marx |
|
Religion is the sigh of the
oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of
soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people |
Karl
Marx |
|
If all exclusive religions are
right and everyone else is wrong, isn't everyone just wrong? |
Kozy |
|
The Ten Commandments state that
"you shall not have any other gods before me", he is saying you can
worship other gods just him more. God is a greedy bastard. |
Kyle
McDonald |
|
The way to make a million dollars
is to start a religion |
L Ron
Hubbard |
|
If Jesus had been killed 20 years
ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around
their necks instead of crosses |
Lenny
Bruce |
|
So why do I have to go to church
to pray? If there is a god can't he hear me at my house? |
Linda |
|
Evolution is not like creationism.
It isn't a claim that one can choose to believe, but a fact that one chooses
to acknowledge. |
Longinus |
|
It is
not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the
contrary, man created God in his own image.
- |
Ludwig Feuerbach |
|
Religion has caused more misery to
all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. |
Madalyn Murray O'Hair |
|
Christianity claims Jesus Christ
died for mankind's sins. Okay, but they also claim he was resurrected three
days later. Assuming both were true, didn't he have just a really shitty
weekend? |
Marian
Irish |
|
Man
created God in his image : intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent. |
Marie
|
|
If god
is the alpha and the omega. The begining and the
end, knows what has passed and what is to come, like it states in the bible,
why do people pray and think it will make any difference. - |
Mark Fairclough |
|
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 |
|
It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that
bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - |
Mark Twain |
|
The
easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me
to suspect that my own is also |
Mark
Twain |
|
Faith is believing what you know ain't so. |
Mark
Twain |
|
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 |
|
All the
biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. - |
Matthew Arnold |
|
A good king inspires loyalty. An
evil tyrant demands blind obediance. A good king
allows those who do not want to serve him leave in peace. An evil tyrant
kills and tortures those who will not be slaves. This is why I could never be
christian. |
Michael |
|
The intensity of your religious
conviction is inversely proportional to your grip on reality. |
Michael DeRousselle |
|
Living in fear or judgement is not how I will spend my life. Realizing that
this life is all I get and your life is all you get, brings a need to make
the best of all possible. |
Michael
Stanton |
|
Jesus Christ is Santa Claus for
adults. |
Michael
T |
|
I
refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world,
preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell
if I’m ‘bad’. - |
Mike Fuhrman |
|
It's better to live in freedom for
one life time than to be a slave of God for an eternity. |
Mimoun Raddahi |
|
Religion is a limitation on your
freedom. |
Mimoun Raddahi |
|
God is like Santa Claus; A great,
amazing and lovely person but sadly untrue. |
Mimoun Raddahi |
|
There must be Religion. Otherwise
the poor would murder the rich. |
Napolean Bonaparte |
|
Religion
is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet |
Napoleon
Bonaparte |
|
If the Bible is the word of God,
then I for one would be very worried about the mental state of the author.
The guy's a fruit cake. |
Neil Hurle |
|
If God gets the praise for saving
you, then he should get the blame for not saving all the others. |
Neil Hurle |
|
Jesus (if he even existed) would
have been executed for being a threat to Roman power... he wouldn't be
executed because his invisible dad in the sky planned it all to "save
us". |
Neil Hurle |
|
In a dangerous world there will
always be more people around whose prayers for their own safety have been
answered than those whose prayers have not. |
Nicholas
Humphrey |
|
Children are born without
religion, don't give them your nerosis. |
Nick Kinnan |
|
If god created my brain I'm
certain he approves of its usage. |
Nogard |
|
A religious text should ideally
not extend past three pages. Any longer and it tends to contradict itself. |
Nogard |
|
A man without religon
is like a fish without a bicycle |
One of
Murphy's laws |
|
When I think of all the harm the
Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. |
Oscar
Wilde |
|
As stated many times: "Those
whom have faith are happier then those
without." Of course this is true! Have you never heard..."
ignorance is bliss?" |
Patrick
Timothy Kirk |
|
The whole of humanity consists of
one long war; we just prefer to divide them all into chunks so we can look
upon the history of humankind with a bit of sadness as opposed to total
disgust. What god would create such a species of murderous hypocrites |
paul hampson |
|
Faith is a euphemism for prejudice
and religion is a euphemism for superstition. |
Paul
Keller |
|
The
characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any
similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. - |
Penn and Teller |
|
Believing there is no God gives me
more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and
all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will
ever have. |
Penn Jillette |
|
Everything is more or less organized
matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same. When
did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was
talking to myself |
Peter
O'Toole (The Ruling Class) |
|
It has served us well, this myth
of Christ. |
Pope Leo
X |
|
If God created everything, he
created evil. Who is He to call us sinners? |
Pretentious |
|
If I threaten to kill my children
unless they worship me, am I good parent? OK, maybe that's a little bit
extreme. Maybe I should just allow someone to torture them for eternity
instead. |
Prof Uri
Nassol |
|
If I knew someone was going to go
out and slaughter people, but I did nothing to stop them and my only excuse
was "Well, I can't interfere with free will", would you worship me?
|
Prof Uri
Nassol |
|
Religion is the homo sapien brain throwing a tantrum and insisting that the
universe revolves around our species. Atheism is the homo sapien
brain learning to move beyond such childishness. |
Prof Uri
Nassol |
|
It is impossible to convince some
children that there is no Santa Claus. They do not fully grasp reality. |
R Reboulet |
|
As long as you need an external
entity to give credit to for wonderful things that happen to you or to blame
for ugly things that happen to you, you need God |
Ravikiran R |
|
If you would be a real seeker
after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as
far as possible, all things. |
René
Descartes |
|
"This so-called new religion
is nothing but a pack of weird rituals and chants designed to take away the
money of fools. Now let us say the lord's prayer 40 times, but first let's
pass the collection plate." |
Rev.
Lovejoy (The Simpsons) |
|
Without God, life is everything. |
Rev. Ron |
|
In 1000 years we will all be
Atheist or we will no longer be. |
Rich
Rodriguez |
|
It is very difficult to reason
someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into. |
Rich
Rodriguez |
|
You do
not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to
justify hate. - |
Richard A. Weatherwax |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
Be thankful that you have a life,
and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. |
Richard
Dawkins |
|
Religion is unusual among
divisible labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had
any evidence going for them, we might had to respect them in spite of their
concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label peop... [more] |
Richard
Dawkins |
|
Religious faith not only lacks
evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from
the rooftops. |
Richard
Dawkins |
|
I am against religion because it
teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. |
Richard
Dawkins |
|
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 |
|
But I don't have to know an
answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the
mysterious universe without having any purpose — which is the way it really
is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me |
Richard
Feynman |
|
The more I study religions the
more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. |
Richard
Francis Burton (1821-1890) |
|
You're basically killing each other to see
who's got the better imaginary friend |
Richard
Jeni |
|
There once was a time when all people
believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. |
Richard
Lederer (Anguished English) |
|
There are three kinds of people:
those who seek the truth as revealed by a higher authority; those who seek
the truth as defined by rational enquiry; and the vast majority, who believe
whatever they find convenient. |
Richard
Van Harris |
|
As far
as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty
much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don’t know about you, but
I think that after the first, oh, I don’t know, 50,000,000 years of that I’d
start to get a little bored. - |
Rick Reynolds |
|
Men
rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods
have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
- |
Robert A Heinlein |
|
One man’s theology is another
man’s belly laugh. |
Robert
A. Heinlein |
|
The most preposterous notion that
H. Sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and
Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures,
can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does |
Robert
A. Heinlein |
|
"The only reasons people believe in God is; |
Robert DesLauriers |
|
The
inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it. - |
Robert G. Ingersoll |
|
As
people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for
teachers |
Robert G. Ingersoll |
|
Why should I allow that same God
to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own? |
Robert
G. Ingersoll |
|
Christianity did not come with tidings
of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of
everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition
hereafter |
Robert
G. Ingersoll |
|
"With soap, baptism is a good
thing." |
Robert
G. Ingersoll |
|
In Nature, there are neither
rewards nor punishments, there are consequences. |
Robert
G. Ingersoll |
|
God has always resembled his
creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably
found on the side of those in power. Most of the gods were pleased with
sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divi... [more] |
Robert
G. Ingersoll |
|
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
G. Ingersoll |
|
“The church has always been
willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.” |
Robert
Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
|
When one person suffers from a
delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it
is called Religion. |
Robert
M. Pirsig |
|
Who needs Satan when you have a
God like this? |
Robert
M. Price |
|
When
one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people
suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
- |
Robert Pirsig |
|
Animals
do not have gods, they are smarter than that.
- |
Ronnie Snow |
|
Pray
to God, fine; but keep rowing to shore. |
Russian Proverb |
|
I think, therefore I am athiest |
Ryan
Evans |
|
If God
created the world, then who created god? and who created whoever created god?
So somewhere along the line something had to just be there. So why can’t we
just skip the idea of god and go straight to earth? - |
Ryan Hanson |
|
Thank god I'm an atheist... |
Salvador
Dali |
|
Atheism
is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence
of religious dogma. - |
Sam Harris |
|
If we
expect God to subscribe to one religion at the exclusion of all the others,
then we should expect damnation as a matter of chance. This should give
Christians pause when expounding their religious beliefs, but it does not. - |
Sam Harris |
|
Whenever a man imagines that he
need only believe the truth of a proposition, without evidence - that
unbelievers will go to hell, that Jews drink the blood of infants - he
becomes capable of anything |
Sam
Harris |
|
A man
is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what
he knows. - |
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) |
|
Today's wars are not about good
vs. bad--they are about *your* good vs. my good. Religion is perhaps the most
potent meme that creates, fosters and justifies these divisions. |
Satish Babu |
|
Prayer has no place in the public schools,
just like facts have no place in organized religion. |
School
Superintendent on "The Simpsons" episode #1 |
|
Watch people pray. Most people do
it with their eyes closed, and this should tell you something. |
Scoob |
|
Religion was created to comfort
mankind when faced with his own lack of immortality. |
Sean |
|
Religion
is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the
rulers as useful. - |
Seneca the Younger |
|
The finality of death is the
coldest truth one must face. Religion makes the perfect distraction. |
Shaun |
|
When a
man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and
wholesome life. - |
Sigmund Freud |
|
The religions of mankind must be
classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who
shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such. Civilization and Its
Discontents |
Sigmund
Freud |
|
"Religion is comparable to a
childhood neurosis." The Future of an Illusion / 1927 |
Sigmund
Freud |
|
It is a truism that almost any
sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the
political power to do so. |
Sir
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
Creationism, perhaps the most
pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American
public. |
Sir
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
Its 90 degrees in the shade in jerusalem..
where did noah get two penguins and two polar bears
from? |
sir
David stevens |
|
A lie is a lie even if everyone
believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it |
sir
David Stevens |
|
Men occasionally stumble over the
truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever
happened. |
Sir
Winston Churchill |
|
The only church that enlightens is
the one that's in fire |
someone |
|
Often a non-Christian knows
something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world,
about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances,
...and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience... [more] |
St.
Augustine |
|
Religion is purelly
a man-made form of power and authority...for those who control it of course.
Just ask yourself what the ten commandments are. |
Stelios |
|
All religions are founded on the
fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. |
Stendhal |
|
"Remember, Jesus would rather
constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family." |
Stephen
Colbert (Colbert Report) |
|
The intelligent beings in these
regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality
in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their
existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborho... [more] |
Stephen
Hawking |
|
Creation science has not entered
the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to
mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly
why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most |
Stephen
Jay Gould |
|
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 |
|
I
contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you
do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will
understand why I dismiss yours.
- |
Stephen Roberts |
|
What’s
“God”? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your
eyes and you wish for it? God’s the guy that ignores you. - |
Steve Buscemi
(From the movie “The Island”) |
|
Remember,
Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. - |
Steven Colbert |
|
Today’s
religion will be the future’s mythology. Both believed at one time by many;
but proved wrong by the clever.
- |
Steven Crocker |
|
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 |
|
They
felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were
worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to
religious belief and it’s a good thing.
- |
Steven Weinberg |
|
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 |
|
I find that men in costumes are a
little old to have imaginary friends, unless of course they are clowns |
Stewart
Farquhar |
|
"To assert that the earth
revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born
of a virgin." |
Stupid
quote #1: |
|
"We don't have to protect the
environment, the Second Coming is at hand." |
Stupid
quote #2: |
|
Theists should never complain no
matter what happens in the world because nothing happens without the
almighty's will. So if I break your head, murder your kin, dont blame me. God made me to do it. |
Suresh |
|
I distrust those people who know
so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with
their own desires. |
Susan B.
Anthony |
|
The more prohibitions you have,
the less virtuous people will be. |
Tao Te Ching |
|
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the
earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? |
Taslima Nasrin |
|
We
must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to
experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected. |
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, 1988 |
|
The power of prayer and faith can
heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped
by this don't realize that this power is really coming from within. |
Terry |
|
The
presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the
presence of those who think they've found it. |
Terry
Pratchett |
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Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of
the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a |
The
First Amendment |
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O Lord our God, help us to tear
their bodies to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling
fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the
thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded. |
The War
Prayer : by Mark Twain |
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And on the trillionth day, Man
created Gods. |
Thomas
D. Pate |
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I have
never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven
and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as
religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk. - |
Thomas Edison |
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I
have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in
our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are
all alike founded on fables and mythology. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Shake off all the fears of servile
prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely
crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every
fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God;
because, if there b... [more] |
Thomas
Jefferson |
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"Millions of innocent men,
women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been
burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch
toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of |
Thomas
Jefferson |
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"Question with boldness even
the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the
homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." |
Thomas
Jefferson |
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It is always better to have no
ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. |
Thomas
Jefferson, (letter to Rev. James Madison, J |
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The day will come when the
mystical generation of Jesus…will be classed with the fable of the generation
of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. |
Thomas
Jefferson, 1823 |
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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 |
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Art. 11. As the Government of the
United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian
religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws,
religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen;
and, as the said States never ente... [more] |
Treaty
of Tipoli (Joel Barlow) |
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Don't
pray in my school, and I won't think in your church |
unknown
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Philosophy
is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never
be questioned. |
Unknown
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Two
hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer |
Unknown
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George
Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians
love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer,
they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer
makes it any more absurd. |
Unknown
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Blind
faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. |
Unknown
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Give
a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat
for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish |
unknown
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People
who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny
beliefs |
unknown
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"If god doesn't like the way
I live, Let him tell me, not you." |
Unknown |
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Deaths in the Bible. God -
2,270,365 not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or
the many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10 |
Unknown |
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Doesn't it bother you that you put
more logical thought into choosing a car than you do in choosing a god? |
Unknown |
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Blasphemy is a victimless crime |
unknown |
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"Faith is to the human what
sand is to the ostrich." |
Unknown |
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Atheism is a non-prophet organization. |
unknown |
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there is a very apt and
appropriate way to summarise organised
religion, and it is that Christianity, Islam and Judaism are like children in
a classroom. |
unknown |
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Gods don't kill people |
unknown |
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Primates often have trouble
imagining a universe not run by an angry alpha male |
Unknown |
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"Who created god? If your
answer is he always was, then why can't you say the same for the
universe?" |
unknown |
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if triangles had a god, He would
have three sides |
unknown |
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God made me an atheist |
unknown |
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The Bible has fingerprints all
over it. And none of them are God-sized. |
unknown |
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The only thing we become after
death is fertilizer |
unknown |
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Religion was created to calm the
weak and fearfull about death, and allow them to
accept it without panic. Unfortunately, religion will probably exist until
the day we can extend human life. Thankfully, Science is fast approaching
that day. |
unknown |
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More people have died in the name
of christ than for any other reason - the
Inquisition, Crusades, witch hunts, etc. God must be spinning in his grave. |
Unknown |
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If athesim
is a religion, then not playing cards is a hobby. |
unknown |
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Out of anxieties fostered by fears
and uncertainties born of ignorance, man fashioned a supernatural world of
gods, demi-gods, heroes, and monsters in an attempt
to explain the natural phenomena around him. |
unknown |
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What is the difference between a
cult and a religion? About 100 years. |
Unknown,
quoted by Dana Morale |
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Abstinence Makes the Church Grow
Fondlers |
Unkown |
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There is in every village a torch
- the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman |
Victor
Hugo |
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Of all
religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire
tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most
intolerant of all men. – |
Voltaire |
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Those
who believe absurdities will commit atrocities |
Voltaire
|
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God is a comedian playing to an
audience too afraid to laugh. |
Voltaire |
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It is difficult to free fools from
the chains they revere. |
Voltaire |
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Prayers never bring anything...
They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal,
and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to
bring you something for Xmas |
W.C.Fields |
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All churchs
beat the devil good, but they are very carefull not
to kill him! |
Wilfredo Hernandez |
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He
that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that
dares not reason is a slave |
William
Drummond |
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Life is a vacation from two
eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what
happens when you get back to forever? |
William
S. Burroughs |
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Not
only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - |
Woody Allen |
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If it
turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst
that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. - |
Woody Allen |
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If God exists, I hope he has a
good excuse |
Woody
Allen |
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Existence for eternity could get a
little boring.. especially towards the end. |
Woody
Allen |
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"Did you make mankind after
we made you?" |
XTC (english
pop band), "Dear God" |
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If triangles had a God, he'd have
three sides. |
Yiddish
proverb |
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If God lived on earth people would
break his windows |
Yiddish
saying quoted by Steven Pinker |
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Seeing a cross or a crucifix, to
me, is a symbol of death and agony. It’s not really the symbol I want
tattooed on me, or worn on a chain. |
Zoltan X4J |