top atheist quotes (total: 15978)
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| Thomas Paine |
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. |
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| Bumper sticker |
Stop lying to children - Break the cycle of religion |
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| unknown |
Blasphemy is a victimless crime |
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| HSM |
The Christian god makes man human, then burns him when he acts like one. |
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Stephen Jay Gould |
Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most |
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| Judith Hayes |
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. |
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| Josh Charles |
Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation? |
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Richard Dawkins |
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops. |
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Richard Dawkins |
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. |
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| Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez |
God should be executed for crimes against humanity. |
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| Stephen King |
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window |
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| Taslima Nasrin |
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? |
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| Nick Kinnan |
Children are born without religion, don't give them your nerosis. |
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| Me |
Science flies people to the moon, religion flies people into buildings. |
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| Nogard |
If god created my brain I'm certain he approves of its usage. |
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| Rich Rodriguez |
In 1000 years we will all be Atheist or we will no longer be. |
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| unknown |
Atheism is a non-prophet organization. |
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| Jesse Ventura |
Religion is a crutch for the weak minded. |
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Mark Twain |
Faith is believing what you know ain't so. |
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Voltaire |
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. |
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| Rich Rodriguez |
It is very difficult to reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into. |
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| Pope Leo X |
It has served us well, this myth of Christ. |
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| Michael |
A good king inspires loyalty. An evil tyrant demands blind obediance. A good king allows those who do not want to serve him leave in peace. An evil tyrant kills and tortures those who will not be slaves. This is why I could never be christian. |
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
"With soap, baptism is a good thing." |
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George Carlin |
Interstingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to God ar all answered at about the same 50% rate |
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
In Nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences. |
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| British comedian (sorry I forgot the name) |
When I was a child I had an imaginary friend to whom I talked. Then I grew up and became an atheist. |
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| Unknown |
Primates often have trouble imagining a universe not run by an angry alpha male |
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| Daniel Boorstin |
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. |
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| unknown |
"Who created god? If your answer is he always was, then why can't you say the same for the universe?" |
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| Nogard |
A religious text should ideally not extend past three pages. Any longer and it tends to contradict itself. |
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point |
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H. L. Mencken |
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind--that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. |
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Penn Jillette |
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. |
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John Kelly Ireland |
Who are the bigger fool's, those who are born stupid or those who choose stupidity? |
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| Daryl Elliott |
"All religions are cults of varying degrees." |
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| Sigmund Freud |
"When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life." |
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| Steve Buscemi "The Island" |
What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you. |
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter |
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| unknown |
The Bible has fingerprints all over it. And none of them are God-sized. |
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H. L. Mencken |
"Puritanism- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." |
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| Sir Arthur C. Clarke |
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. |
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| Ed Martin |
Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there. |
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| Frank Zappa |
"Children are naive -- they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble." |
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| John Buchan |
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. |
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| Frank Zappa |
A mind is like a parachute. It doesnt work if it not open. |
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| 44th President Dem-To-Be-Named-Later United States |
He who says "The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs" is woefully ignorant of history. The United States was founded by Deists, and the puritan settlers were but one immigrant group among many. |
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| KANT |
The death of dogma is the birth of reality. |
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Robert A. Heinlein |
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. |
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| Eric Williams |
Religion serves men as blinders serve horses. |
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osirisnut |
Associated Press. I deem deplorable the practice of so called surrogate motherhood, which represents a grave violation of dignity of the woman and child, based on the exploitation situations of the mothers material needs. Dope francis. As of going to press the virgin mary has not replied. |
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Pat Simons |
One of the mainstays of theology is debating hypothetical outcomes involving things that have never been demonstrated to exist. |
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EA Miller |
Kill religion, save humanity! |
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EA Miller |
If any religion had the “one true god” that the Abrahamic religions so vehemently decry exists, why wouldn’t he just talk to the entire world in whatever their regional dialect is and clear everything up?
But alas... *crickets* as usual because all gods are imaginary
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EA Miller |
No all-knowing, all-powerful, omnipresent being would require very flawed, very diverse, very regionally influenced, human beings to spread its message. |
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EA Miller |
Denying science in the age of new exploration and discovery to embrace antiquated religious beliefs is the pinnacle of human arrogance and ignorance. |
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osirisnut |
WTF Bible verses... It is shameful for a woman to speak in the church. 1 Corinthians 14:35 |
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osirisnut |
WTF Bible verses... If a man strikes a slave with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. However, if the slave gets up after a day or two he shall not be punished since the slave is his property. Exodus 21:20-21 |
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osirisnut |
A nun was walking through a forest near to her nunnery where she was raped. After her ordeal the man said, in 9 months you shall have a child and you can call it john. The nun replied, in 6 months you shall have a rash and you can call it syphilis. |
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osirisnut |
A man was approached in N I by two men and asked if he was a catholic or a protestant?. The man replied I'm an atheist, to which the second man asked are you a catholic or a protestant atheist? |
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