top atheist quotes (total: 15978)
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
The burden of proof always lies with those who CLAIM something exists. Without proof it doesn't. |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour, but thou canst rape his wife and shag his children. |
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Mr X |
indoctrination, Christianity's main source of followers "sheep" |
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Travis Culliton - "Why I love my Prozac" |
As a child, I feared upsetting the god that I had learned about, but that was because I was taught about hell, and who wants to go to hell as a child, right? |
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Travis Culliton - "Why I love my Prozac" |
...atheism leaves no room for excuses... |
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Travis Culliton - "Why I love my Prozac" |
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. |
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Mr X |
About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough—and even miraculous enough if you insist—I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find meaning and purpose in life? How does a mere and gross materialist, with no expectation of a life to come, decide what, if anything, is worth caring about?
Depending on my mood, I sometimes but not always refrain from pointing out what a breathtakingly insulting and patronizing question this is. (It is on a par with the equally subtle inquiry: Since you don't believe in our god, what stops you from stealing and lying and raping and killing to your heart's content?) Just as the answer to the latter question is: self-respect and the desire for the respect of others—while in the meantime it is precisely those who think they have divine permission who are truly capable of any atrocity—so the answer to the first question falls into two parts. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' except if the person living it is also an existentialist and elects to call it so. It could be that all existence is a pointless joke, but it is not in fact possible to live one's everyday life as if this were so. Whereas if one sought to define meaninglessness and futility, the idea that a human life should be expended in the guilty, fearful, self-obsessed propitiation of supernatural nonentities… but there, there. Enough. -- Christopher Hitchens. (One of my favs) |
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Jed King 2014 |
Scepticism of God's existence is not necessarily a denial, it is merely an acknowledgement that the emperor still appears to be stark bollock naked. |
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Jed King 2014 |
People who constantly brandish the 'faith' card only demonstrate their bone-idleness to think their way out of the box. |
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Bob Allen |
It is human self aggrandizement to think that a human-like persona could do a better job of producing all of nature than all of nature does producing and reproducing itself at every moment, in every detail. Nature can be defined as all that exists and all that occurs naturally. Humans are a small part of nature falling within the definition. |
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Andy Borman |
If the rainbow came after Noah's flood then water droplets could not diffract sunlight into its constituent wavelengths before Noah's flood. If sunlight could not be diffracted into its wavelengths, each being a different colour, then Noah's world was without colour, it was at most monochrome. |
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Dean Bogan |
Christianity does not and will never allow personal ownership of one's successes and failures and completely dilutes individuality. |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
I don’t want an argument that convinces me that the death under the guillotine of Sophie Scholl ... or of Anne Frank in Bergen-Belsen ultimately contributes to the greater good. If my eternal salvation depends on the deaths of these two young women, then forget it. - Michael Ruse |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
Sign of the times:
Father, to ten year old son: "Christmas is just around the corner, son, and I think it's time I told you the truth. There is no Santa Claus."
Son: "I know, dad."
Father: "You've taken it very well. Aren't you even a little bit upset?"
Son: "No dad. I've suspected as much since I was six."
Father: "Oh. It's nice to see you growing up to appreciate the REAL adult world."
Son: "And dad."
Father: "Yes, son?"
Son: "I also know there is no god and no Jesus."
Father: "WHAT!!!! You silly little boy! What would YOU know about such things? Now go up to your room, put yourself to bed and pray for forgiveness! You STUPID boy!"
Son: "Yes father." |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
Love is where you find it, how you found it and - more than likely - where you left it. |
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Bill Williams |
When I was a child, I asked my Sunday school teacher what heaven was like. She explained in detail how we would worship God for eternity. I then asked her what hell was like. |
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Gene Blalock |
I'd love to see the world outlaw religion and reproduction for one year! I think you'd be rather surprised how much better the world would be. |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
Facebook comment/quote from a believer:
"How can you atheist fools believe we evolved from apes when there are STILL apes around today?"
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
Religion: It's ALWAYS had that "Good cop; Bad cop;" feel about it. |
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Diane Allen |
Creationists often say to me
"The evidence of creation is all around us"
but the evidence of evolution is all around us too.
It's the bit between the beginning and now that we disagree on. |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
If there IS a god, as far too many believe, then that god must spend most of its time sitting on its hands with its eyes tightly shut whilst listening to the screams of terrified victims. |
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osirisnut |
BREAKING NEWS: Christian archaeologists say they are close to discovering the chalice Mary was given when she gave birth to her son, they said that it will be easy to identify as it will be etched with the words, "It's a boy" with a line through boy and God written above it. |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
Theists should take note that NO atheists were involved in the crucifixion of their "god".
History tells us that Jesus broke local religious laws, tantamount to blasphemy. Edicts instituted by theist government.
He was arrested by theists, tried for his crimes by theists, found guilty and sentenced to death by theists, beaten, tortured and then made to carry his cross to a hill outside the city by theists, nailed to that cross by theists, had his legs savagely broken by theists and a theist soldier thrust his sword through his chest.
Not ONE atheist would have been involved in any of the above. Simply because it would have been against their "religion(?).
I would have to imagine that had I been around at that time I would've had to keep my atheist head down through fear of being nailed to a cross myself. But I dare bet that that atheist head of mine would have been shaking in total disbelief at the silliness of it all. |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world. - Matthew Arnold |
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Arsène I MUHIRE |
If the rain is "good thinking", religion is your head's umbrella while atheism is a funnel. |
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Irene Wendy Stehr |
"Many followers will claim their god is all powerful, all just, all perfect, all wise, omnipotent, and knows the past, present,and future. . .If this is the case, why didn't their god have the foresight to inspire the writers of the Bible so it would be filled with timeless morals and ethics that would apply to any culture in any time period of human history and written in such a way that nobody could ever misinterpret it?" - Eric Kincade |
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Kevin Cavallaro |
It took God six days to create an entire universe. With all this tremendous power and knowledge why did God not do it all in an instant? |
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Blake Hoene |
Wait so there are stars we can see that are so far away it would have taken more than six thousand years for their light to reach us, pfffft, there's no evidence, how could you know how far it is, you aren't there. |
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peter broad |
I think so must be an atheist |
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Enoch Author (admin) |
Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls. ― Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, |
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Alexander Paulius |
Many religions believe in an afterlife in which when a human being dies, their body stays behind and their souls go to a so called "Heaven" where you live for the rest of eternity. Our brain is our conscious being and thought centrum which also happens to be a part of our body. So in theory, if our body stays behind we will never consciously live in the spiritual realm. |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
Science versus Faith.
There is good science and there is bad science. But at least when it's bad science the scientists are man enough to admit it.
Theists' should take note. |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
An unbeliever's view on why he isn't prepared to keep his damn opinions on the subject of imagined gods to himself:
I endeavour to educate misguided irrational believers of false entities in very much the same way as I - as an adult - would be expected to teach children road safety awareness.
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Irene Wendy Stehr |
“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.â€
― Richard Dawkins |
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Carlos Mora |
In a country in which atheists are the minority, to be united makes all difference |
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Irene Wendy Stehr |
For too long tradition has shielded religion and given it a free pass. It is like a spoilt child that believes the rules do not apply to it. Ask it to prove itself historically and it blatantly exhorts, “I am historical but the normal rules of historical evidence do not apply to me;†beg it to prove itself scientifically and it mutters, “faith is all I offer you,†attempt to hold it accountable for its crimes and it will invoke tradition as a legal defense; and should you commit the crime of asking it to conform to the rules of logic, it will simply smile at you and hand you nothing but illogical arguments wrapped in a thin veneer of misappropriated logic. For too long religion has hidden beneath the emotional bonds of an intellectually dark tradition, but no more. From now on, let’s hold it accountable. Michael Sherlock author. |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
How much longer are we going to be required to sing in tribute to imaginary deities?
We might just as well sing in praise of The Mad Hatter, Red Riding Hood and Rumplefuckinstiltskin. |
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Pranay Gohil |
Believers .. get a life...
Ohh sorry your GOD, stopped doing that after adam.. |
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carlton sumsion |
I think, therefore I'm atheist. |
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carlton sumsion |
There are two classes of men. Intelligent men without religion and religious men without intelligence. |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
Maybe my atheism can be put down to my nut allergy. |
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carlton sumsion |
Our one goal in life should be to seek as much knowledge and truth before our candle fades out. |
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Kevin Cavallaro |
Humans came along at the last minute of 13.7 billion calendar and suddenly it's all about us. |
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carlton sumsion |
Evolution is both fact and theroy. Creationism is neither. |
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osirisnut |
Centuries ago if someone did something to cause awe and bewilderment it was called a miracle. If someone to-day does something to cause awe and bewilderment it's called a trick. |
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Richard Brown |
an atheist is supposed to know everything about everything, while a theist has to know just three words 'god did it'. |
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carlton sumsion |
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud. |
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Richard Gomes |
Looks like religion and dope affect same regions of the brain. |
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Richard Gomes |
Understand the difference between opinion, hypothesis, theory and law, before saying that Theory of Evolution is not proved.
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carlton sumsion |
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.
Carl Sagan. |
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EA Miller |
When asked about religion, a wise man once said, “No, thank you!†|
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Sam Hill |
Pope because he lies to people? I thought it was a sin. |
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MrSoftware Junior |
The reason why you prefer Christianity to Islam, Buddhism and Hindu, Islam to Christianity, Buddhism and Hindu, Buddhism to Christianity, Islam and Hindu, Hindu to Christianity, Buddhism and Islam, is the same reason why I prefer none of them to any of them.
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Sam Hill |
Seek the light of knowledge, but be careful, you may encounter the light of ignorance that can blind you. |
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EA Miller |
Is it saner to be alone and yell at the TV when your favourite sports team is losing a match or to be alone talking to an invisible friend who lives in the sky? Just curious! |
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EA Miller |
I think that most elementary school kids have a better grasp on reality than theologians do! |
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EA Miller |
A talking bush, a talking snake, a talking donkey, zombies, and the ridiculous Noah's Ark tale... At some point you just need to call BS! |
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EA Miller |
Why does the “God of love†kill so many people in the Bible? |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
There was a time when we atheists were in the majority. It was just after Mankind created the first god. |
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Akanyang Canine |
The Bible is not "HOLY". There's nothing HOLY about Women & child abuse, rape, Slavery, Racism, murder, & Fathers sleeping with daughters |
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