top atheist quotes (total: 15983)
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| Thomas D. Pate |
And on the trillionth day, Man created Gods. |
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| Thomas Paine |
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. |
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| unknown |
Blasphemy is a victimless crime |
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| HSM |
The Christian god makes man human, then burns him when he acts like one. |
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Stephen Jay Gould |
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 |
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| Judith Hayes |
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. |
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| Josh Charles |
Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation? |
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Richard Dawkins |
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops. |
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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. |
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| Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez |
God should be executed for crimes against humanity. |
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| Stephen King |
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 |
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| Taslima Nasrin |
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? |
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| Nick Kinnan |
Children are born without religion, don't give them your nerosis. |
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| Me |
Science flies people to the moon, religion flies people into buildings. |
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| Nogard |
If god created my brain I'm certain he approves of its usage. |
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| Rich Rodriguez |
In 1000 years we will all be Atheist or we will no longer be. |
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| unknown |
Atheism is a non-prophet organization. |
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| Jesse Ventura |
Religion is a crutch for the weak minded. |
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Mark Twain |
Faith is believing what you know ain't so. |
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Voltaire |
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. |
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| Pope Leo X |
It has served us well, this myth of Christ. |
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| Michael |
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. |
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| Rich Rodriguez |
It is very difficult to reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into. |
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| British comedian (sorry I forgot the name) |
When I was a child I had an imaginary friend to whom I talked. Then I grew up and became an atheist. |
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
"With soap, baptism is a good thing." |
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
In Nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences. |
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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 |
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| Unknown |
Primates often have trouble imagining a universe not run by an angry alpha male |
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| Daniel Boorstin |
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. |
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| unknown |
"Who created god? If your answer is he always was, then why can't you say the same for the universe?" |
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| Nogard |
A religious text should ideally not extend past three pages. Any longer and it tends to contradict itself. |
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point |
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John Kelly Ireland |
Who are the bigger fool's, those who are born stupid or those who choose stupidity? |
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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. |
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Penn Jillette |
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. |
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| Daryl Elliott |
"All religions are cults of varying degrees." |
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| Sigmund Freud |
"When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life." |
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| Frank Zappa |
"Children are naive -- 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." |
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| Sir Arthur C. Clarke |
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. |
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| unknown |
The Bible has fingerprints all over it. And none of them are God-sized. |
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| Ed Martin |
Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there. |
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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 |
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| Steve Buscemi "The Island" |
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. |
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| 44th President Dem-To-Be-Named-Later United States |
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. |
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| Frank Zappa |
A mind is like a parachute. It doesnt work if it not open. |
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| Wilfredo Hernandez |
All churchs beat the devil good, but they are very carefull not to kill him! |
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| Kozy |
If all exclusive religions are right and everyone else is wrong, isn't everyone just wrong? |
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| John Buchan |
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. |
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| 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. |
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| John Adams |
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it. |
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Pat Simons |
Nothing divides people more effectively and unnecessarily, than religion. Take religion out of the equation, and a great many of the world's problems would fade away. |
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ed m |
Does god have a navel and if so, why? |
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EA Miller |
If religion offered actual advanced wisdom, true empathy, embracement of diversity, and was beneficial to all human beings, it would not require any type of indoctrination or apologetics to be universally accepted. |
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osirisnut |
WTF Bible verses... Behold I, the lord, will rebuke your offspring and will spread dung on your face, even the dung of your animal sacrifices , and you will be taken away with it. Malachi 2.3. |
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osirisnut |
Theists FYI.. There is no such thing as a born again Christian, you weren't born a Christian you were raised a Christian. |
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osirisnut |
Christians you were not born with an original sin, you don't have a soul, you don't have a guardian angel, and you don't have saints because they don't exist either. |
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EA Miller |
I’m not on the side of any religion. All religions are dangerous. They just have fluctuating, various degrees of harm that they inflict on humanity at any given time in history. |
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EA Miller |
If being a misogynistic pig is part of your religion, then atheism is not your problem my friend. |
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EA Miller |
I thank fictional gods for nothing. This world has enough resources to feed and house everyone, but instead self-serving despots, billionaires, and religious factions fighting over who has the best imaginary friend have ruined it all. |
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EA Miller |
I question anyone who takes the word of a priest, pastor, rabbi, or imam in matters regarding science over that of a highly educated actual scientist. |
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