Atheism Quotes
God should be executed for crimes against humanity.
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislikes him.
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world, not even in infinite space. I was free — free to think, to express my thoughts — free to live my own ideal, free to live for myself and those I loved, free to use all my faculties, all my senses, free to spread imagination's wings, free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope, free to judge and determine for myself. . . I was free!
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
It is extremely naïve to think that mankind is capable of sinning against god. If god exists as a being who watches us, judges us, and cannot be contradicted, then how could anyone possibly contradict laws of conduct set forth by that being?
If the prodigal sons a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe god is just figure of speech.
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.
Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?
Atheist: A person who believes in one less God than you do.
Science with religion is lame; religion without science is blind. Science without religion is useful, religion with science is useless.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
There’s no reason for me to believe that God exists, so I don’t.
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.
Catholic - which I was until I reached the age of reason.
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.
