Pat Simons

Free lance philosopher and gentleman unicorn rancher. Author of five books, and a published poet.

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top atheist quotes (total: 201)

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It's obvious that the multitude of religions in the world cannot all be right. There is nothing, however, that precludes their all being wrong.		174
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.		174
Religion bases much of its success on the fact it is far easier to fool someone, than it is to convince that person they've been fooled.		148
Conservative religionists of all stripes live in fear of new ideas. Thinking people live in fear of religion's old ones.		94
Attempting to determine who is, or is not, a 'true' Christian, has spilled enough blood to float the Navy.		92
While astrologers are no-doubt wrong in the conclusions they draw, the stars and planets are at least real, and their ideas are testable. All of which is much more than can be said of theologians.		76
Nothing is much more ironic than a science-denying fundamentalist using a smart phone.		76
The people who continue to advocate organized prayer in the public schools become conspicuously less enthusiastic when someone suggests the prayer be Islamic.		52
While it's true Atheists have fewer holidays to celebrate than theists, it's also true atheists have no holy wars they're responsible for, and that's a trade-off I'm willing to make.		52
The evangelicals speak endlessly of their loving Jesus, but make no mistake, given a free hand, the blood-thirsty monster of the old testament is the model they would build the world of their dreams around.		36
Certain christians simply do not grasp the fact that, under the U.S. Constitution, rights are not matters of majority rule. Rights exist to protect the individual from the tyranny of the majority.		36
Religion enables people who do not even understand the questions, to convince themselves they know all the answers.		35
There is no situation so bad it cannot be made worse by religion.		35
Beware of Pope's with inviting smiles and the appearance of a congenial personality. If he wasn't the same kind of monster Pope's have always been, he would have never been chosen.		34
If everyone actually thought about their religion, there would be a lot more atheists.		29
I think a lot of preachers in the age of COVID-19 are living in fear their congregants will realize the preachers need them a whole lot more than they need the preachers.		28
If random chance is the baseline, then religion has a success rate of zero.		28
Beware of those who publicly celebrate their piety.		27
Conservatism is by its very nature intolerant, stagnant and backward looking. This is doubly true when applied to religion.		27
When a preacher tries to explain god's motives behind a natural disaster, you can be certain he's trying to lend supernatural sanction to his own bigotry.		27
We are not the special creation of any god. We are not a planned outcome. We are what happened, and we celebrate ourselves at our peril.		27
The universe doesn't care what you believe.		27
Facts do not care whether you believe them or not. They're still facts regardless.		27
Alcohol never solved any problems! Then again, neither did religion. /s		27
Religion always finds a way to excuse the inexcusable.		26
The people who would force religion into the public schools tend to become conspicuously less enthusiastic if the religion is going to be anything but their own.		26
I can forgive primitive peoples for believing the universe was made just for them. There is no possible excuse for such thinking today.		26
Creationists flail away at poor old Darwin with the idea that if the great man can just be discredited, they win by default. No, they don't. They have to prove their point too, and merely attacking Darwin doesn't do that.		26
If something can be destroyed by facts and reason, then it needs to be destroyed.		25
Authoritarian government and conservative Christianity......the original same-sex marriage.		25
Religion and morality do not automatically exclude each other, but they are very far from being the same thing.		25
Why do the terminally religious always assume they're entitled to a say in other people's personal decision making?		25
Freedom of religion is never enough for the fanatic. The fanatic always believes his god has chosen him to make other people's personal choices for them.		25
I suspect the big time television preachers, in addition to being con-artists, are also the worst kind of atheists. There is simply no way they would want to face their maker and explain the lives they've lived.		25
I wish the owners of this site would take steps to stop commenters from spamming.		24
What good thing has any member of the clergy ever done, that could have only been done by a member of the clergy?		24
The preachers are a protected class of social parasites. One of the things that disgusts me most about them is the way they come crawling out of the woodwork after every disaster, natural or man made, to explain god's motives to we lesser individuals. God's motives always have a remarkable similarity to the personal biases of what ever preacher is speaking at the moment.		24
The entirety of the human experience constitutes less than an eye-blink on the time scale of a universe that is unimaginably vast. It requires a towering conceit to conclude it was all made just for us, by a god whose existence can never be demonstrated.		24
If people actually thought about the things they have faith in, the world's religions would appear in about the same proportions everywhere. As it is, one's faith is almost entirely a product of geography.		24
Ninety-nine percent of all the species that ever existed are extinct. The entirety of the human experience constitutes less than an eye-blink on the time scale of the universe, and the Christian era a tiny fraction of that small number. We celebrate ourselves at our peril.		23
Religion needs to be consigned to the graveyard of bad ideas.		23
Not all religious people are stupid, but stupid people are always religious.		23
No matter of science was ever resolved through a debate. In science, evidence and testability are the only things that matter.Therefore, when the creationist wants to debate evolution, they've already lost the argument. They're just too full of supernatural nonsense to realize it.		23
One man's heresy, is another man's self-evident truth. And around and around it goes. You'd think an all powerful god could have done a better job of getting his/her/its message out.		23
Religion . . . both the original cure and the original disease.		22
Imagine the quality of the minds that would be attracted to Medicine, Law, and other professions if those fields only studied one book, hadn't had a new idea in centuries, and couldn't demonstrate the truth of anything they taught. And yet, the clergy expects to be deferred to.		22
Few people terrify me more than politicians whose world view is shaped by inflexible religious belief.		22
If prayer worked, churches wouldn't need collection plates.		22
Those who would break down the barriers between church and state always imagine their own religion holding sway and making the decisions for everyone. They should be imagining the sect they dislike most having control over their lives.		22
Few things afflict the human species more adversely than does absolute certainty regarding the supernatural.		22

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