Voltaire

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top atheist quotes (total: 23)

atheist quote	context
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities		144 2695
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.		82 935
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.		11 516
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world."		5 67
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.		17 62
if we believe absurdities, we will commit atrocities		16
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.		13
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.		8
when the first smart met the first fool , god was created .		6
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh		6
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool - Voltaire		1 8
All people are born with a nose and two hands with fingers on them but no one was born with a knowledge of a god.		1 7
Religion began when the first knave met the first fool.		2 9
( Last words when asked by the priest on his death bed whether he renounced the devil and all his works) "Now is not the time to be making unnecessary enemies"		4
"The Bible. (caps not mine). What fools have written, what imbeciles command, what rogues teach, and young children are made to learn by heart".		4
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and blood religion ever to infect the earth.		4
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.		1 6
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."		3
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.		3
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd		3
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.		2 7
If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.		1 4
A witty saying proves nothing.		7 9