top atheist quotes (total: 15987)
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EA Miller |
Anyone who tries to win an argument by saying "Because the bible says so" should automatically have 30 points deducted from their IQ test! |
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EA Miller |
As as atheist, I do good for the sake of doing good rather than for the empty promises of a make-believe after-life. |
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EA Miller |
In case you're not aware of the difference...
Secular World: the real, observable world, the only one we have
Spiritual Word: the fantasy world containing some immensely unpleasant characters
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Mark Twain |
Sacred cows make the best hamburger |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
One particular gene mutation lead to belief in supernatural beings and can be passed on to offspring generation after generation.
Only a concentrated dose of commonsense can rid oneself of this abnormality. |
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Alan Harvey |
The Commandments Moses forgot:1)Thou shalt not rape 2)Thou shalt not keep slaves 3)Thou shalt not have sex with children 4)Thou shalt not kill anyone for their religious beliefs. And...5)Thou shalt not profit from the beliefs of others... |
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EA Miller |
Tossing a penny into a fountain and making a wish has about the same success rate as praying for various things from your favorite deity, but throwing coins is so much more fun! |
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| Frank Zappa |
Just remember that there is a big difference between knealing down and bending over. |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
Religion is a cancer, and just like many cancers there is no cure.
On the subject of cancer.
Many $BILLIONS have been - and still are - being spent on finding cures for bodily cancers, and yet not ONE dollar has been spent on finding a cure for the cancer of religion.
Yet religion, just like cancer, has been - and still is being - responsible for MILLIONS of deaths. |
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Woody Allen |
Existence for eternity could get a little boring.. especially towards the end. |
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| James Madison, 1785 |
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. |
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EA Miller |
God so loves the children...
Psalm 137:9: "Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks." |
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EA Miller |
The perfect way to suffocate a beautiful, intelligent, creative mind? Just add religion. |
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| Albert Einstien |
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 called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it
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EA Miller |
I have never once read a science book that commands me to stone non-believers to death! |
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Richard Dawkins |
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we ARE apes. |
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| 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 where your outrageous certainty comes from? |
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| The War Prayer : by Mark Twain |
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. |
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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 revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time. |
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| Hank Guerin |
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 walking around doing basically nothing and then one day rearranged reality to set in motion events that would lead to his own death...effectively committing suicide. He does this because his death will, for some or other reason, clear humanity's sin tally (which he, himself is keeping up in heaven). And then after his plans to get himself killed fall into place, he looks around and asks himself why he has abandoned himself? Is that the basic gist of it? |
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| android |
if we are all gods children....whats so special about jesus |
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| George Orwell |
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act |
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| 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. |
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Carl Sagan |
Your god is too small for my universe. |
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Godfrey Zoan |
Some theists say scientists are "playing god" but I don't see any scientists deliberately making babies that will die of cancer before they can even walk. |
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| Joe |
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 prevent genocide in Rwanda, then it can not move you so as to save your life." |
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| James Madison |
What has been Christianity's fruits? Supersition, Bigotry and Persecution |
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| Tao Te Ching |
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. |
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Scott D. Weitzenhoffer (admin) |
Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon; it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.
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| Patrick Timothy Kirk |
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?" |
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Woody Allen |
God is either cruel or incompetent. |
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| Manulal M Inasu. |
Atheists make only a small percentage of the world population and this proves that the common sense is not so common. |
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EA Miller |
Religion:
The greatest, longest running ponzi scheme of all time where only those spewing BS from the very top are cashing in, and cashing in big.
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Sam Harris (from Letter to a Christian Nation) |
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. |
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EA Miller |
"Priests of the religious sects, dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live."
-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Correa de Serra, April 11, 1820
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| Eric Trowbridge |
I used to believe in God, but then I read the bible. |
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| paul hampson |
religion creates the most useful of slaves; those who think they are free |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
I do find it strange that the Intelligence Services Worldwide are staffed in the main by people who believe in the Supernatural. |
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| Godfrey Zoan |
So god can make a universe over 28 billion light years across containing billions of stars and planets just so a few apes on one single, insignificant world can worship him... but he can't be bothered to help a starving baby? |
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| Jaws007 |
Religion is the biggest joke humankind has ever played on itself. |
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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. |
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| Azura Skye |
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. |
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EA Miller |
"Bible Wisdom"
(An oxymoron)
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EA Miller |
An imagination is a wonderful thing unless it morphs into something dangerous that the masses blindly follow, like religion. |
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| johnnie jones |
I truly wish that christians were created exactly in the image of god, then they wouldn't exist either .
11-23-11 |
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| johnnie jones |
Facts
Worldwide, by census and medical reports, America is number one in two categories. sadly they are #1 in percentage of Christians, and #1 in percentage of mental illness . |
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Pat Simons |
Conservative religionists of all stripes live in fear of new ideas. Thinking people live in fear of religion's old ones. |
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EA Miller |
Time and time again "thoughts and prayers" have failed in spectacular fashion. Yet many continue to use them rather lifting a finger to help another human being in need. |
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Pat Simons |
Attempting to determine who is, or is not, a 'true' Christian, has spilled enough blood to float the Navy. |
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| John Adams |
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." |
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EA Miller |
I trust rational thinking and science. Holy books have neither. They make grand assumptions without ever providing a shred of evidence. |
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EA Miller |
Easter, when adults pass out chocolate crosses (representing an ancient Roman torture device) to children as fun, holiday treats. I guess mixing them in with chocolate eggs, bunnies, and jelly beans makes everything just peachy! |
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Pat Simons |
If people judged their own belief systems by the same standards they apply to other people's, there would be far fewer theists, and the world would be a better place for it. |
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Pat Simons |
Anyone who begins a sentence with the words, “Bible says, . . .” as identified himself as someone not worth wasting your time on. |
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EA Miller |
I’m grateful for science, rational thinking, and those who embrace equal rights and the beauty of our diverse world. What I don’t do is “praise” mythological beings that give me the permission to be a narrow-minded hateful bigot. |
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EA Miller |
There is no greater danger to this Earth than the intermingling of greed, power, and religion. *Please see “The United States” |
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EA Miller |
Only use the statements "I'll pray for you" or "I'll put you on our prayer list" when you absolutely plan on doing NOTHING for the person or persons in need. |
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ed m |
As greed blinds the heart,
Our planet drifts away |
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EA Miller |
Religion:
Finding comfort in collective, destructive ignorance
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EA Miller |
The Bible doesn't seem to acknowledge most places on planet Earth. It's almost as if the desert dwelling sky-worshipers that wrote it knew very little about our planet.
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