top atheist quotes (total: 16009)
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| Kozy |
If all exclusive religions are right and everyone else is wrong, isn't everyone just wrong? |
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| John Adams |
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it. |
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| Eric Williams |
Religion serves men as blinders serve horses. |
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| Cogito |
How difficult would it be for 11 men to hang a traitor, move a boulder, remove a body, and replace said boulder within a period of three days? |
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| Jean Meslier |
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. |
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| Stendhal |
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. |
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| John Adams, 2nd US President |
The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion. |
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Robert A. Heinlein |
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. |
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| The First Amendment |
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a |
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. |
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| Napolean Bonaparte |
There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich. |
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Thomas Jefferson |
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear |
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| Thomas Jefferson, 1823 |
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. |
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| Karl Marx |
Religion is the Opiate of the masses. |
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| Mimoun Raddahi |
It's better to live in freedom for one life time than to be a slave of God for an eternity. |
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| Unknown |
"Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich." |
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| Frank Zappa |
Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion? |
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| Oscar Wilde |
When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. |
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| Charles Stonehouse V |
The existance of G W Bush is the proof against intelligent design. |
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| James Randi |
Gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood. |
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John Kelly Ireland |
Religious people and donkey's: A donkey is a simple creature it would follow a carrot on a stick, but it is still capable, even with its most basic of intellect of determining when there is no carrot. |
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| Bob Snuka |
I refuse to believe in a god that would send me to hell just for not believing in him. |
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| Pat Condell |
Q: Prove God doesn't exist.
A: That's a tough one. Show me how it's done by proving Zeus and Apollo don't exist and I'll use your method. |
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| bumper sticker |
question everything or believe anything |
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| unknown |
God made me an atheist |
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| Rick Reynolds |
As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don't know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don't know, 50,000,000 years of that I'd start to get a little bored. |
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| William S. Burroughs |
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever? |
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| Isaac Asimov |
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition |
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| Sam Harris |
Whenever a man imagines that he need only believe the truth of a proposition, without evidence - that unbelievers will go to hell, that Jews drink the blood of infants - he becomes capable of anything |
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Gene Roddenberry |
They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with |
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains |
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| andyc |
you could spend a lifetime studying a religion, study two and you will be done within the hour. |
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H. L. Mencken |
Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility." |
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Albert Einstein |
Why do you write to me "God should punish the English"? I have no close connection to either one or the other. I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held |
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| Ambrose Bierce |
Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. |
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. Most of the gods were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume |
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George Bernard Shaw |
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means. |
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Robert A. Heinlein |
The most preposterous notion that H. Sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does |
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| Karl Marx |
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people |
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| Bill Hicks |
They believe the bible is the exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, hu huh? "I think what God meant to say..." |
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| Suresh |
Theists should never complain no matter what happens in the world because nothing happens without the almighty's will. So if I break your head, murder your kin, dont blame me. God made me to do it. |
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EA Miller |
On the topic of claims that 'god is perfect'...
"Perfect beings do not experience anger or surprise towards a sequence of events they knew of in advance."
-John Kelly Ireland |
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Pat Simons |
It's obvious that the multitude of religions in the world cannot all be right. There is nothing, however, that precludes their all being wrong. |
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EA Miller |
Christians: "I'm fighting for my religious freedom."
What they're saying in reality: "I'm fighting to inject my religious dogma into every aspect of society (e.g., government, schools, medical field) and I could give a rat's ass about anyone else's beliefs!"
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EA Miller |
Mixed messages, repetition, bad fact checking, awkward constructions, inconsistent voice, weak character development, boring tangents, contradictions, passages where nobody can tell what the heck the writer meant to convey. . . . This doesn't sound like a book that was dictated by a deity.
-Valerie Tarico
(regarding the Bible) |
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EA Miller |
"Faith is the sound your mouth makes when your brain is not strong enough to use logic."
-Paul Kinsella |
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| W.C.Fields |
Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas |
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EA Miller |
The one thing you can count on during the broadcast of Christian television programs is not a closer relationship to Jesus, but rather that they'll ask you for money at some point during the program. |
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EA Miller |
In my opinion, a doctorate in theology equates to a doctorate in fairy tale. However, if I had to choose which one to pursue, I would choose the latter because Grimm's characters were so much cooler than those in the bible. |
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EA Miller |
Why are religious nut-jobs in such a hurry to indoctrinate young children into the faith? Because they know that if these children were allowed to think for themselves, they'd likely choose science and reason over the ignorance and superstition of religion. |
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osirisnut |
WTF Bible verse... Don't think I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace. I came to bring a sword. matthew. 10:34 |
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osirisnut |
The bible is "Essentially patriarchal and propaganda and one of the worst books ever". It begins with a story of adam and eve in which eve is created from adam's rib and people believe it, because they're stupid enough. The bible and belief in god, " Holds us back" Brian Cox (actor) |
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osirisnut |
Dope fancis has told a group of priests in Rome that " gossip is woman's business" and urged them to speak frankly, without going behind people's backs, "because we wear the trousers". This of course was said whilst he was wearing a dress whilst addressing men who were also wearing dresses. Honestly you couldn't make this shit up. |
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osirisnut |
I remember reading a passage from the bible, if memory serves me right it went something like this. Blah, blah, blah, bullshit, bullshit, and I say unto thee blah, blah, blah, bullshit, bullshit, and here endith the lesson. 7:24 |
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EA Miller |
If "religious beliefs" infringe upon the civil rights of specific populations of human beings, anyone that possesses empathy should actively challenge those beliefs. |
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EA Miller |
"Project 2025" is the 800+ white Christian nationalist blueprint to give a Republican President of the United States the power of a king to crush the civil rights and freedoms of the people as well give the President the right to imprison or even execute his/her opponents among other horrible things. Google "Project 2025", it is absolutely terrifying! |
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Pat Simons |
Nothing divides people more effectively and unnecessarily than religion. Take religion out of the equation and a great many of the world's problems would fade away. |
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EA Miller |
Anyone who claims that an invisible god told them to do something is either a liar, a lunatic, or a combination of both. |
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EA Miller |
Any race of beings that has achieved a life-enhancing level of technology and yet continues to cling to barbaric religious beliefs is most certainly on a path to extinction. Humanity’s days are numbered. |
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Idel Dreimer |
God is function without form -- a conceptual entity often central to tribal identity, a mythic glue for social cohesion, a psychological source of hope and comfort, and a powerful talisman protected by assumed infallibility and supportive social taboos. Yet he is, after all, puppet rather than creator -- and -- shaped by his self-appointed messengers -- is not exempt from the corruptive influence of power. Too human, with power of divine pretence, he becomes his satanic counterpart. (Observation #2369)
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