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No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.
Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.
To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.
If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.
When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.
Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.
In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.
Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.
Enthusiasm is contagious - so is a lack of it. Joyless Christians are a greater assault on the gospel than atheism.
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.