top atheist quotes (total: 16012)
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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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| Bumper sticker |
Stop lying to children - Break the cycle of religion |
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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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| Rich Rodriguez |
It is very difficult to reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into. |
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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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Robert G. Ingersoll |
"With soap, baptism is a good thing." |
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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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Robert G. Ingersoll |
In Nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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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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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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John Kelly Ireland |
Who are the bigger fool's, those who are born stupid or those who choose stupidity? |
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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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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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H. L. Mencken |
"Puritanism- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 A. Heinlein |
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. |
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| John Buchan |
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| KANT |
The death of dogma is the birth of reality. |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
Jesus was likely a troubled young man brainwashed by his mother, who was too afraid to admit that she had lain with a man outside of marriage, just another tragedy of religion. |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
The Old Testament to the New Testament is just an evolution to fit a more modern understanding, showing that the Old Testament was no longer acceptable by logical righteousness standards, proving the Bible is merely a man-made book. |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
I find it interesting when theists claim the Bible's validity is confirmed by archeologists' use of the text to discover actual places, ignoring the widespread literary practice of incorporating real locations into fictional tales. |
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EA Miller |
Using "gods" as an explanation for things you don't understand is just a lazy, uneducated, cop-out. |
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EA Miller |
Life without religion truly frees the mind for much more noble pursuits, like feeding and housing the poor regardless of their belief system. In other words, help other human beings simply because they need help without taking advantage of their vulnerability. |
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EA Miller |
Once upon a time, man invented god... and then everything went to hell. |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
What kind of evil vanity drives your god to permit tragedy simply to receive prayers? |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
Studies indicate that the number 3 is the most frequently employed number in deceptive stories and statements. Notably, it is also a recurring numerical motif in biblical stories. |
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Pat Simons |
The mere fact there is a field referred to as apologetics should be a far bigger problem for theists than it is. Apologetics is, in itself, a compelling case for atheism. |
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Jerry Dees Jr |
Wishing something into existence is more about creating something from nothing than everything forming from already existing ingredients. |
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