top atheist quotes (total: 15911)
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| Annie Dillard, 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek' |
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?" |
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| Frater Ravus |
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. |
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| Edith Sitwell |
I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. |
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| Unknown |
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 |
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Woody Allen |
If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse |
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Mark Twain |
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also |
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| Donald Morgan |
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. |
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Richard Dawkins |
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. |
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| School Superintendent on "The Simpsons" episode #1 |
Prayer has no place in the public schools, just like facts have no place in organized religion. |
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| Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) |
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. |
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Douglas Adams |
I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. |
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| Bob Snuka |
I refuse to believe in a god that would send me to hell just for not believing in him. |
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| Robert M. Pirsig |
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. |
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| Unknown |
Doesn't it bother you that you put more logical thought into choosing a car than you do in choosing a god? |
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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 of nature |
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Christopher Hitchens |
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof |
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| One of Murphy's laws |
A man without religon is like a fish without a bicycle |
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Albert Einstein |
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. |
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| Susan B. Anthony |
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. |
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| God |
*silence* |
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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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Robert G. Ingersoll |
Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own? |
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Richard Dawkins |
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. |
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| James Morrow |
"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes |
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George Carlin |
Christians worship a dead Jew on a stick. |
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Bertrand Russell |
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence |
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
"Faith" means not wanting to know what is true. |
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| Chapman Cohen |
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense |
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| Dan Fouts |
I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in. |
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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 |
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| Ed Krebs |
The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe. |
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| Peter O'Toole (The Ruling Class) |
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 |
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| Gypsy Rose Lee |
Praying is like a rocking chair-- it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere |
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| Jon Stewart (Daily Show) |
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. |
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Richard Dawkins |
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. |
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Voltaire |
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. |
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Mark Twain |
I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. |
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| Lenny Bruce |
If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses |
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Richard Feynman |
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 |
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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 people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic. |
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| Robert M. Price |
Who needs Satan when you have a God like this? |
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| David Viaene |
Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people |
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| Frank Zappa |
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. |
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Salvador Dali |
Thank god I'm an atheist... |
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| David Brooks (The Necessity of Atheism) |
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy |
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| Rev. Ron |
Without God, life is everything. |
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it |
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| Bumper sticker |
Stop lying to children - Break the cycle of religion |
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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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osirisnut |
Religious leaders say religious violence is not caused by religions. |
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osirisnut |
Q. Which bishops can you trust? The answer, of course is, the only bishops you can trust are those on a chess board. |
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osirisnut |
CHRISTIANITY: 2000 years of trying to prove god exists and the best they can come up with is "You'll find out when your dead". |
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osirisnut |
The Establishment betray the victims of child rape, whilst protecting the perpetrators and those who shield them. |
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Idel Dreimer |
And on the eighth day, God sat back to watch the unfolding. And he saw the lion crush the gazelle, the python swallow the child, the parasitoid larva relentlessly consuming its host, the spider enjoying her cannibalistic meal. He saw the Black Death, and the mortal consequences of viral success. And reflecting on the marvels he had wrought, God smiled, for he knew that they must be good. (Observation #2105) |
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EA Miller |
A single decent human being is far better than any of the thousands of gods ever concocted by mankind.
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EA Miller |
“How absurd that a god would become a human just to sacrifice himself to himself in order to create a loophole to a rule that he created.” -Roger Boden |
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Pat Simons |
Religion offers itself up as a solution to problems people didn't even know they had. |
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EA Miller |
Religious institutions, which pay no taxes whatsoever, should have no say in what goes on in tax-payer funded public schools. |
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EA Miller |
If you ever desire to take the "intellect" out of an intellectual conversation, just add religion. It's as simple as that! |
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