Atheism Religion Quotes

One who does not believe in the self is an atheist. If you believe in yourself, then you are the most religious person on earth.

Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.

So, your god is the only god? Okay, but then, so is my dog.

The 330 million gods and goddesses of the Hindu culture act as placebo for the masses, just like other gods of other cultures do.

Religion springs from man's feeling of inferiority.

No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head.

Atheism and traditional institutions of the Church are the polar sides of the same marasmus: either of them is badly lacking the truth.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.

I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

A belief is not true because it is useful

No idea is above scrutiny and no people are beneath dignity.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

A man without reason is no better than a mad dog, and mad dogs must be put down for the good of everyone.

Not only is this not love I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

Religion has always been an irrelevant aspect if my life. The people here are either pissed of atheists, or religious freaks waiting for God to save them.

Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring." (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.

Choosing comfort over knowledge is a sign of a weak mind..

The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.

Fundamentalism of any kind, be it religious, atheistic, political or educational, is the greatest threat to human excellence – it is a threat to progress – it is a threat to greatness.

Reason is neutral. It has no biases. It has no agendas. There are no personal interests at stake. Reason simply says, “Here is the data, be responsible with it.” As such, reason is impartial.

The bullshit detector is the biggest enemyof every religion."From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"('Scourges of an imaginary god')

God might not be dead, but he's sure as hell missing in action.

...atheism leaves no room for excuses...

Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.

I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.

Religion is the last cultural barrier to gender equity.

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Gods didn’t mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief …

An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists … or that He doesn’t.

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.

Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.

Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.

I, too, have to end up worshipping at the altar where God’s name is truth.

Jesus would pray to himself and cry. I often do the same.

When Jesus said “Whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life” John 6:54 He was CLEARLY talking to Zombies & Vampires

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts.

Faith is believing beyond the power of reason, when they're all against you. To one who has faith, no explanation is possible. To one without faith, evidence is necessary.