Atheist Quotes

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"This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on T.V. everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing." -Tool

"Such a weird belief. Lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back he's gonna want to see a fucking cross, man?" -Bill Hicks

"Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear" -Thomas Jefferson

"Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity you don't realise how irritating it was 'til it's gone"

"The only difference between God and Adolf Hitler is that God is more proficient at genocide."

"Power corrupts;

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; God is all-powerful. Draw your own conclusions" "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."

"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish"

"Why does the Vatican have lightning rods?" "God made me an atheist.

Who are you to question his wisdom." "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."-Napoleon Bonaparte

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." -Gene Roddenberry

"There once was a time when all people beleived in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages." -Richard Lederer

"To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy." -David Brooks

"The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail" -Gustaf Lindborg

"If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses" -Lenny Bruce

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." -Chapman Cohen

"The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.'" -Robert G. Ingersoll

"It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark." -Michael Shermer

"Jesus' last words on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here." -"Rev." Donald Morgan

"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." -Isaac Asimov

"If you love god, burn a church" -Jello Biafra

"Whenever I think of how religion started, I picture some frustrated old man making out a list of all the ways he could gain power, until he finally came up with the great solution of constant fear and guilt, then he leaped up and started planning a new wardrobe." -Steve Blake

"I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless." -Peter Walker

"I don't believe in God for the same reason I don't believe in Mother Goose." -Clarence Darrow

"Like all religions, the Holy Religion of the Invisible Pink Unicorn is based upon both Logic and Faith. We have Faith that She is Pink; and we Logically know that She is Invisible, because we can't see Her. For many, faith is a suitable substitute for knowledge, as death is for a difficult life" "You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." -James Thurber

"The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believerr caught up in his own false image of God." -Martin Buber

"An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality." -Erich Fromm

"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. . . . A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill." -Henry Lewis

"H.L." Mencken "I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time." -Isaac Asimov

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire "If you keep your mind suufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it." -William A. Orton

"Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide." -Tom Robbins

"Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders?" -Fredrich Nietzsche