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There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.
It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.
When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.
All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.
We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.
When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?
In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
I'm not scared of dying, because I'm an atheist. I won't even know I'm dead. You know why? Because I'll be fùckin' dead.
We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.
Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.
The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else.
The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.
All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.
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.
Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.
Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains.
Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.