top atheist quotes (total: 15983)
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EA Miller |
Why are religious nut-jobs in such a hurry to indoctrinate young children into the faith? Because they know that if these children were allowed to think for themselves, they'd likely choose science and reason over the ignorance and superstition of religion. |
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EA Miller |
On the topic of claims that 'god is perfect'...
"Perfect beings do not experience anger or surprise towards a sequence of events they knew of in advance."
-John Kelly Ireland |
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EA Miller |
Mixed messages, repetition, bad fact checking, awkward constructions, inconsistent voice, weak character development, boring tangents, contradictions, passages where nobody can tell what the heck the writer meant to convey. . . . This doesn't sound like a book that was dictated by a deity.
-Valerie Tarico
(regarding the Bible) |
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EA Miller |
In my opinion, a doctorate in theology equates to a doctorate in fairy tale. However, if I had to choose which one to pursue, I would choose the latter because Grimm's characters were so much cooler than those in the bible. |
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Pat Simons |
People have grown so used to the staggering number of christian denominations, they rarely stop to consider how utterly bizarre it is to worship a god who could will the universe into existence, but can't get his story straight. |
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| Ryan Evans |
I think, therefore I am athiest |
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| Unkown |
Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers |
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| Yiddish saying quoted by Steven Pinker |
If God lived on earth people would break his windows |
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Alan Harvey |
The Beatles might not be bigger than Jesus... but at least we know they really existed. |
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| Andrew Simpson |
If I wanted to spend my life believing in something - it would be myself. |
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| Michael Stanton |
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. |
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| Mimoun Raddahi |
Religion is a limitation on your freedom. |
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| gramma red |
"On the first day, man created God." |
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| Cobra32 |
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." |
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| Bumper sticker |
Born right the first time |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.
• Dan Barker, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists |
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| Stephen Hawking |
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 neighborhood not seeing any poverty |
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EA Miller |
Blessed are those that follow by "faith" alone.
Blessed are those who follow by "ignorance" alone.
I fail to see the difference!
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Enoch's Author (admin) |
Tug on the thread of the creation myth and the entire Bible unravels. So we really can't blame them if they get their knickers in a twist over evolution. - Enoch's Thread |
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EA Miller |
Atheists have the keen ability to see through massive piles of BS which others blindly see as fact. |
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Enoch's Author (admin) |
The scientist accumulates vast amounts information in a lifelong quest for truth.
With a single book the religious man feels complete.
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Enoch's Author (admin) |
Creationists would have no fundamental issue with the overall concept of evolution except for two points they feel obliged defend and preserve: One, they need the earth to be young: about ten thousand years old and two, they can't have man evolving from monkeys. Should they concede these points their entire book, you know, the Bible, falls and Genesis goes first. - Enoch's Thread |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
The guilt-fueled zeal of the steadfastly religious is the single best testimony to the staying power of early childhood indoctrination. - Ralph Metusi |
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Bertrand Russell |
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. |
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| Haili |
God is Santa for adults... |
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| A Pagan |
If money is the root of all evil, why does the church need so much money? |
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| Unknown |
I've found that most people that want to share their religious beliefs with you very rarely want you to share yours with them. |
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Baron von Knifty |
Before you pray for that second coming, you should at least prove the first one.
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| joseph fuentes |
God is eternal because human stupidity is infinite. |
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John Kelly Ireland |
God is my shepard: - Only sheep need a shepard |
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| Bill Hicks |
I love the pope in his pope mobile. Three feet of bullet proof plexiglass. That's faith in action folks, you know he's got god on his side |
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| sir David Stevens |
A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it |
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| Bumper sticker |
Nothing Fails Like Prayer |
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Richard Dawkins |
"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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| Baron von Knifty |
I just talked to god and he says he's a gay pro-abortion Atheist! Now, prove that statement false. |
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| Stephen King |
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off." |
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| Linda |
So why do I have to go to church to pray? If there is a god can't he hear me at my house? |
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| Pretentious |
If God created everything, he created evil. Who is He to call us sinners? |
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| Issac Asimov |
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived |
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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 |
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| Rev. Lovejoy (The Simpsons) |
"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." |
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| Unknown |
God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom? |
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| Stephen Colbert (Colbert Report) |
"Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family." |
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| unknown |
The only thing we become after death is fertilizer |
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| Dracos |
Religion is the leading cause of death throughout history. |
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| unknown |
if triangles had a god, He would have three sides |
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| Scoob |
Watch people pray. Most people do it with their eyes closed, and this should tell you something. |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre |
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. |
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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 |
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| Geoff Mather |
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. |
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