top atheist quotes (total: 16012)
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EA Miller |
Nobody actually needs religion. People are simply convinced by others that they can’t do without it. Food, water, and shelter are real needs. |
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EA Miller |
Religion is an impediment to clear, rational thinking. Becoming an atheist removes that impediment and allows a person to reach their maximum potential. |
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EA Miller |
A doctorate in theology is a true oxymoron! |
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EA Miller |
Religious answers are dogmatic and purportedly final, based on a mishmash of tradition, myth, prejudice and ignorance. |
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EA Miller |
“I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever's making the decision to understand that once it's pushed, it's over. Finito. They're not gonna have lunch with Jesus. Won't be deflowering 72 virgins on the great shag carpet of eternity, or reincarnated as a cow. I want someone making that decision who believes life on this Earth isn't just a dress rehearsal for something better -- but the only shot we get.â€
― Quentin R. Bufogle |
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Joshua May |
I will not bow before a god, I will not surrender logic and reason to blind faith |
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EA Miller |
Rather than buy the latest greatest Christian self-help book, put your money to good use and buy a homeless person a hot meal instead. |
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EA Miller |
“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.â€
― Christopher Hitchens |
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Confucius |
"You only get two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only get one." |
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Reginald Dokubo |
Traveling to Bethlehem to see the birthplace of Jesus, is like traveling to Mount Olympus to visit the personal bedroom of Zeus!!! |
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Link Is-cool |
If you need the threat of eternal torture to be a good person,
You're not a good person |
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Dr. Idel Dreimer |
The universe is a great mystery -- but there seems to be an irresistible impulse to explain it in human terms -- with distinctly human Gods inordinately preoccupied with their precious human creations. Objectively, this inclination seems to betray an infantile self-absorption. Why should the universe care more about homo sapiens than elephants, or jaguars, or some other life form elsewhere in its undefined vastness? Isn't it about time we grew up? (Observation #791)
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Santeri Hantula |
Look, if I go to hell because I don't believe in God, your God can only blame himself for not answering the prayers that ask him to reveal himself. |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
It's religion, it's stupid. |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
Inhumanity is part of religion as much as suffering is a part of stories. The Bible is crafted in cruelty. - Ralph Metusi |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
I agree that sometimes it is difficult to choose between right and wrong, but not between right and stupid. • Amit Kalantri |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
Missionary zeal stems neither from intellectual belief, nor theological argument, but from a desire for affirmation of a personal acceptance of the unsatisfactory and self-contradictory religious position. - Ralph Metusi |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
"Within the next thousand years my views on religion will become fashionable and accepted by all.
"But meanwhile I will continue airing them where and whenever I can." Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) |
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Dr. Idel Dreimer |
Religion is superstition made respectable by tradition. |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
Evolution Theory versus The Creation Theory.
There are reams of testable evidence to support one and absolutely NO testable evidence to support the other.
We merely have to decide which is which. It's that simple. |
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Paul Buttino |
Let's see, what are some of the kind, considerate and compassionate things done in the name of religion...well there's the Crusades, and the estimated killing of 3-5 MILLION people, the inquisition, the witch hunts, the Roman persecution of Christians, Buddhist human sacrifices, Aztec human sacrifices, Islamic Jihads (9-11) and even America's Civil war (both north and south believed God had ordained the war, including ministers! But God "loves" his children...right?? |
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Paul Buttino |
There are no Atheists in war, but why didn't prayer help the 58,000 troops that died in 'nam?? |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
No amount of faith or prayer has ever saved a drowning man. |
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carlton sumsion |
Why can't you checkmate a Christian? Because they are all pawns and their king doesn't exsit. |
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Ethan Fisher |
Don't pray to god; pray to me. If it seems absurd to pray to me, imagine how absurd it must be to pray to a being who may or may not even exist. |
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Ethan Fisher |
Telling people they are worthless and need god in their lives is far more offensive than anything we could say about religion. |
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Edmond Melnychuk |
The worst and most hypocritical people have bronze age ideas and modern weapons. |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
The Creationist's Rebuttal (of Darwin) - courtesy Lewis G. Carroll
'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.' |
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Jeff Collins |
Religious people use the term 'God fearing' for a reason, even if they don't understand it themselves. The fear of 'God' has been used through the ages, in all religions to keep people subservient. The problem is, it worked too well. People now blindly worship a God that's never been proven to exist simply because their upbringing was such, or point in fact, they're scared not to believe. The biggest paradox I can think of is that intelligent, mature people still believe in a supreme being, and will fight to the death to prove they are right. |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.- H. L. Mencken
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Enoch Author (admin) |
There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion. Let it once enter into our civil affairs, our government soon would be destroyed. Let it once enter our common schools, they would be destroyed. Those who made our Constitution saw this, and used the most apt and comprehensive language in it to prevent such a catastrophe.
• Supreme Court of Wisconsin
Weiss v. District Board, March 18, 1890 |
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carlton sumsion |
The fool thinks himself a wise man,the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Shakespeare. |
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Bradley Summerz |
“I’m sorry if my insensitivity towards your beliefs offends you. But guess what – your religious wars, jihads, crusades, inquisitions, censoring of free speech, brainwashing of children, forcing girls into underage marriages, female genital mutilation, stoning, pederasty, homophobia and rejection of science and reason offend me. So I guess we’re even.†– Anonymous |
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Bradley Summerz |
“A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence†– David Hume |
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Mr X |
Its a terrible situation wherein many have been taught what to think rather than how to think. |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
― Chris Hedges
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Christopher Dailey |
My personal vision of hell would be an eternity with Christians. |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
It's a long season and you gotta trust it. I've tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball. - Annie Savoy, Bull Durham |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
When you etch your moral code in stone, you have no room for editing. You leave open the possibility that, as our ethical views evolve, your code becomes less relevant. You could find yourself with four of ten divine moral laws describing how to treat God and zero that prohibit rape or slavery. ― David G. McAfee |
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Edmond Melnychuk |
The difference between nature and god is god needs men to exist. |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.
• Harry A. Blackmun |
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Jed King 2011 |
In the beginning in an ancient desert encampment, illiterate tribal elders created the Bogeyman. The Bogeyman was in the sandstorm, the earthquake, the tempest, the thunderclap, the volcano, the flood, the failed harvest, the plague of insects and the very blackness of night. The Bogeyman was in the rabid dog, the palsied limb, the tormented mind, the thief, the murderer, the naughty child, the harlot, the woman in menstruation. The Bogeyman was employed to spread fear and awe amongst the less powerful men of the community and to procure the subservience of the women and children. Bizarre and foolish stories of the Bogeyman's greatness and power were handed down. The Bogeyman was angry, vengeful, jealous and demanded that all other sky spirits and idols be destroyed, -or so the elders proclaimed. And so it came to pass. The terrifying deity 'Yahweh was conceived and the greatest and most devastating abomination ever to befall humankind was thenceforth loosed among us. -GOD HAD ARRIVED, |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The true prince of evil- the king of the slaves. ― Anton LaVey |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.- Chapman Cohen |
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Mr X |
The religious are blinded by the divine light. |
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Mr X |
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. --Carl Sagan |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
I understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. all the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe, blink by blink. ― John Gardner, Grendel |
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Bob Allen |
"Playing God" is pretending such a monster exists, presuming to know what it wants and doesn't want, and imposing that on everyone. |
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Baz Hill |
Faith is the suspension of all human logic, reasoning and intelligence to believe in something illogical, unreasonable and unintelligent. |
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Deep Patel |
The intelligent designer, who religious people presume to be god, had decided to confine life to earth and then decided to deliberately render 99.8 percent of all it's species extinct, not to mention that natural catastrophes still afflict us today.
Sounds like a omnipotent and benevolent god?
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