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An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.
Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
We're not mad at God, just like atheists don't hate Santa or Unicorns, they're just not there!
I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.
Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.
The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.
Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.
The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.
If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.
It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god
The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
When a man calls himself an atheist, he is not attacking God; he is attacking his own conscience.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan.
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble
A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."
Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species.
I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.