Atheism Quotes

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

Science is the only savior.

The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.

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.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.

Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is.

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

God is just a statistics.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.

The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

If God is a crutch, then atheism is a coma.

God is man idealized.

Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.

The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Theology is ignorance with wings.

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.

Agnostics are just atheists without balls.

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.