top atheist quotes (total: 16012)
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Dan Thomas |
It is hard to believe a person can thank a god, which has never been seen or heard, for a meal, but cannot thank the man who made the meal. |
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| Wazza |
"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder"
- Homer Simpson's version of Pascal's Wager
"I put out these milk and cookies as a sacrifice. If Thou wishest me to eat them, please give me a
sign by doing absolutely nothing. MMMMmmmm..."
- Homer Simpson
why can't i worship the lord in my own way, by praying like hell on my deathbed
Homer: I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell? |
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| A student |
If God knows all and can do all why is there any need for things like crusades and ´purifying` rituals? |
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| Michael O'Mara |
An all knowing god must surly know what it is like to have had gay sex . |
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Anthony Provenzano |
"Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue" |
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| Hugh Jedake |
Science takes the jigsaw pieces and tries recreating the original image. Religion throws the jigsaw pieces away and scribbles all over the box. |
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George Carlin |
"Hey father, if god is so powerful can he make a stone so big that he himself cannot lift it? Ahh... we got him now." |
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| Anne Teekryst |
"Meddling in things we don't understand" has made us the most successful species on Earth and has got us close to curing cancer among other diseases. Pretending we understand everything is what being religious is all about. Please keep meddling scientist! |
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| Peter Gether |
All in all, I can’t say I believe in god. If, in fact, I ever find out that he does indeed exist, I think I’ll stay away from him, because if he’s responsible for half the things he gets credit for, he’s got to be one mean son of a bitch. |
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| David Gorman (paraphrased) |
When a creationist argues that if animal A evolved into animal B then where are the fossils of all the animals in-between? This is a very compelling and conniving argument until you speak to an evolutionist who says “here are the fossils” |
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| Harlow Shapley (astronomer) |
'Some piously record "In the beginning God", but I say "In the beginning hydrogen" |
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Steven Crocker |
It would be nice if there was a god who created the world and if we were all "good" then we would live happily ever after; sadly only few of us have this fantasy, most of us believe that is reality. |
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| James Fox |
You Don't See Atheists Blowing themselves up now do you! |
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| Charles Darwin |
That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.
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| Anonymous |
There are ten church members by inheritance for every one by conviction. |
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| unknown |
You can have your own "truth"; you cannot have your own facts. |
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| Ivan Ratoyevsky |
The bible is NOT the word of god, it is a book created by thousands of different writers, changed & altered thousands of times over. Over thousands of years. It is a book of myth's & fairy stories. |
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| Frederich Nietzche |
Faith: not wanting to know what is true. |
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Carl Sagan |
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
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| sullyism |
the bible is a great example on how not to raise your children |
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| Darren Marfleet |
If Jesus said "Render unto Caesar...", then why don't churches pay taxes? |
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George Carlin |
...the important thing is to question everything you read or hear or see or are told. Try to see the world for what it actually is, as opposed to what someone or some company or some organization or some government is trying to represent it as... |
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| John |
The fool said in his heart "There is no God", the wise said it to the world. |
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Neil Hurle |
We can fall to our knees in awe, dwarfed by the wonder of reality, or we can fall to our knees in prayer, deluded by the fantasy of duality. |
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[anon] |
theist: you're going to hell
atheist: i'll see you there then
theist: oh i'm far too pious to go to hell
atheist: so you practice all religions equally??
theist: don't be silly, i'm a pure (insert religion here)
atheist: then yep; you'll be going to SOMEBONE'S hell |
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| Pat Condell |
If blasphemy was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for me. |
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Woody Allen |
I'm not afraid of death... I just don't want to be there when it happens. |
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| Prof.Uri Nassol |
Life is a terminal illness. Religion lies to you "Don't worry, you're completely cured!". Science tells you straight "You've got roughly 80 years so enjoy every second". Give me truth over denial anytime. |
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Analin Vader |
Just because you want it to be true, doesn't mean it is. Just because billions believe, doesn't mean they should. Oh, and just because the truth hurts doesn't stop it being true! |
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Matthew MacKenzie |
I will never listen to a religion that refuses to hear. |
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| Godfrey Zoan |
Have an abortion and it is "against god's will" and some religious groups will condemn and attack you for "murder". Have a miscarriage and it is "god's will". That expression "god's will" is the most useful (and the most over-used) cop-out clause in religion... theists WAKE UP! |
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Richard Dawkins |
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. |
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Baron von Knifty |
Fear your god, fear your Devil, fear your hell, hate the homosexual, hate the disbeliever, the free-thinkers and all other religions while the Atheist walks free and unencumbered of your silly shackles.
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| Phil Reed |
A work colleague told me that he knew God existed because God had told him so. I said that was typical of this office because he told me he didn't |
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| Elwood P. Dowd |
My personal relationship with...god? Sorry, can't say as I've met the gentleman. But I have spent many a merry evening down at O'Hanlon's drinking boiler makers and swapping yarns with my old pals Santa and the Easter Bunny. |
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| Robert M. Pirsig |
When one person suffers from a delusion, they call it insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion they call it religion. |
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George Carlin |
Religion is just mind control. |
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| Stuart Vealey |
To believe something is true merely because you've been told to, want to, or are afraid not to is irresponsible at best. |
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| Tanner Martin |
PROOF is the only truth, not some book written before gravity was discovered. |
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| Unknown |
The sole difference between a religion, a cult, and a lone nut is the number of people who adhere to it's belief system. |
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Thomas Jefferson |
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus…will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
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Mark Twain |
...a God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his ange |
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| Michael Bell |
Seeing patterns is only proof of OUR intelligence |
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| Robert |
Yourall embarrassing: You could not be more wrong. I was brought up a Christian for many years. The Bible, properly read, is the greatest tool atheists have at their disposal. Feel free to believe in Jehovah, Yahweh, Jesus, Zeus, Wotan, Thor, Aphrodite, Posiden, Amon-Ra, Eku, or the Great Ju Ju of the mountain. Whatever makes you comfortable. There are countless others I have not mentioned here. None of these are any more real than Santa, the flying spagetti monster, the celestial teapot, or the invisible pink unicorn. There is an equal lack of evidence for all of them. The onus is on you to PROVE the existence of your invisible imaginary friend -- not the other way around. |
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Carl Sagan |
I cannot conceive of a god who rewards and punishes his creatures or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or |
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Woody Allen |
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." |
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| David J. Constable |
There exists an enigma. Fundamentalists often are against government social programs such as welfare because, in their eyes, they promote a lack of self-accountability. Apparently, they believe in self-sufficiency and personal accountability - both admirable qualities. Why is it then, that when there is a catastrophe or are other crisis, fundamentalists seem to be the first to make the claim that they have handed over the problem to God and He will make things right? Where is the personal accountability, then? |
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| Harold J. Laski |
Our business, if we desire to live a life not utterly devoid of meaning and significance, is to accept nothing which contradicts our basic experience merely because it comes to us from tradition or convention or authority. It may well be that we sha |
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| Michael Brian |
"I guess, for me, it's a lot better to be nothing... than to claim I feel the same, just to be a part of something." (From the song - No Chorus) |
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| Thich Nhat Hanh |
Do not think that the knowledge you presently possess is changeless, absolute truth. Avoid being narrow-minded and bound to present views. Learn and practice non-attachment from your views in order to be open to receive other's viewpoints. Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge. Be ready to learn throughout your entire life and to observe reality in yourself and in the world at all times. |
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EA Miller |
Faith does not perform open-heart surgery. Faith does not feed the starving masses. Faith does not stop gun violence. Faith does not make climate change non-existent. What faith does do is breed false hope, divides people, causes bigotry and hatred, and puts a halt to critical thinking and analysis of the world. |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
The reason we don't see God is because he's far far away in the cosmos creating suns, moons and planets by the trillion and hasn't got the time to revisit all of them. |
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EA Miller |
“Satan is the originator of storms.†-Charles Stanley, televangelist
“Wait a minute… Didn’t God create Satan?†-Me
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EA Miller |
As a child who attended the Catholic church, I was introduced to levels of idiocy I couldn’t once fathom even existed. |
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EA Miller |
“Science doesn’t give a shit what you believe.â€
-author unknown, but obviously a damn cool person |
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EA Miller |
Since theists already believe in God, wouldn’t it be much more productive for God to start appearing before all the non-believers to convince them as well? Alas, not a damn peep from him. |
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Pat Simons |
All the prayers that were ever prayed, to all the gods that were ever made, did not a single rainbow make. |
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Gregarious |
I don’t often go to church … but when I do, I look forward to eating the flesh of my imaginary friend and drinking his blood, so that when I die I can live forever with him in the sky. Cannibalism and blood-drinking, man, that’s what it’s all about! |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
My Dear child, please accept my most humble apologises for my getting pissed at that last beach tavern and you having to carry me the rest of the way home.
Yours Faithfully,
God.
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EA Miller |
The Adam and Eve tale isn’t anything except ancient writers’ ignorance of biology. |
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