Atheism Religion Quotes
Doing good for the sake of a heavenly reward is not an act of good, but a business transaction.
Where religion clashes with science is that religion makes smart people do stupid things.
The origin and the operation of the universe do not require any violations of the laws of physics.
Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.
The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.
What sort of a god are you, my Lord? Your punishments seem barbaric to me. Either that or we are more god-like and you’re merely human-like.
I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.
If you fall from a plane onto a river, and survived, it is luck, but if you fall from a plane onto asphalt ground, and survived, then that is a miracle.
God doesn't send atheists to Hell -- there's no room with all the Christians down there.
It is a challenge to love someone who does not see the divine as you do, and much harder still to date someone who considers your spirituality a design flaw in an otherwise worthwhile human being.
The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little goodevidence.
It is likely that religious beliefs have been so widespread because they tap into the psychological desires of many people, not because there is any external proof of their veracity.
If the creation of the Universe was left up to a atheist, we would still have nothing.
Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.
God seemed to have become a brand, a packaging, and people purchase this trusted brand with such faith and devotion that they no longer care who the vendor is.
I mean, whatWhat if no one's watchingWhat if when we're deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it's just us down hereWhat if God is just an ideaSomeone put in your head
When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same amount on his attire, we kneel down and kiss his hand.
The imperfections of religions can only be understood by their unfollowers, not followers.
I did apply for more than 200 scholarships and finally I got one, but you are telling me now “God gave it to me!” Don’t you think you are too stupid?
I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.
Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.
If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with — while they wait for their death.
There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.
It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity.
How you can argue with those who whip, stone and murder people because they wanted to live their life?
If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of religion.
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.
In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.
If Heaven actually exists, I don't need anyone to be my real estate broker. After all, what is religion but an attempt to sell you a share in the ultimate gated community?
It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting.
The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.
Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.
If we subject religious claims to a lesser degree of scrutiny, we should not be surprised if religious people subject us to a greater degree of servitude.
I am scared of the day, when they turn atheism into another religion for controlling masses.
Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers.
Given the level of understanding and the fact that they believed already in a set of myths and superstitions, it was the easiest and fastest way to proceed.
You do not have to worhip god to be good and you certainly do not have to be good to worship god.
Scientism and godism are superstitions, one blindly believes in what's visible, the other blindly believes in what's invisible.