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Atheistic Quotes?

January 23rd, 2010

”Don’t pray in my school, and I won’t think in your church” ~ Anonymous

”The insperation of the Bibble depends on the ignorance of the peson who reads it” ~ Robert Ingersoll

”It is far better to grasp the universe for what it realy is than to presist on delusion, however satisfying and reusuring” ~ Carl Sagan

”The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason” ~ Benjamin Franklin

”It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason, and morality” ~ Baron D’Holbach

”The Bible is not my book nor christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christan dogma” ~ Abraham Linkoln

”The most heinous crimes have been commited under the cover of religion or equally noble motives” ~ Gandhi

”Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people” ~ Thomas Edison

”In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable” ~ Sigmund Freud

”It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god” ~ Adolf Hitler

”Religion easily—has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money” ~ George Carlin

”Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of” ~ Mark Twain

”Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

”Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis” ~ Sigmund Freud

”Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool” ~ Voltaire

”Religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few” ~ Stendhal

”So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk” ~ Thomas Edison

”There’s a lot better people can be doing on a Sunday morning.” ~ Bill Gates

”If we don’t play God, who will? ~ James Watson

”If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them” ~ Baron D’Holbach

”A man is accepted into a church for what he believes, he is turned out for what he knows” ~ Mark Twain

” Faith is believing something you know aint true” ~ Mark Twain

”If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods” ~ Baron D’Holbach

”By simple common sense I don’t believe in God” ~ Charlie Chaplin

”Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is God both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
~ Epicurus

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people” ~ Voltaire

”The moths & atheists are doubly divine” ~ Jim Morrison

”Religion is regarded by the common as true, by the wise as false and by rulers as useful” ~ Seneca the Younger

”In God We Trust.” I don’t believe it would sound any better if it were true” ~ Mark Twain

”In no instance have…the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people” ~ James Madison

”Lighthouses are more helpful than churches” ~ Benjamin Franklin

”The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity”
~ John Adams

”Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed” ~Voltaire

”Religion is just mind control” ~ George Carlin

”Atheism is a non-prophet organization” ~ George Carlin

”How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? ~ Woody Allen

”If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse” ~ Woody Allen

”Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends” ~ Woody Allen

”Religion has never really had a big problem with murder. Not really. More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason” ~ George Carlin

”Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God”
~ Albert Einstein

”It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg” ~ Thomas Jefferson

”The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality” ~ George Bernard Shaw

”I believe in God, only I spell it Nature” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

”Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned” ~ Anonymous

”Give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day, give a man religion and he’ll starve to death praying for the fish” ~ Anonymous

”Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going? ~ Anonymous

”The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully” ~ Richard Dawkins

”Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in leprechauns? ~ Richard Dawkins

”I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it” ~ Mark Twain

”If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever” ~ Woody Allen

”It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand” ~ Mark Twain

Remember, many Christians would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. – Steven Colbert

”When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life” ~ Sigmund Freud

”We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further” ~ Richard Dawkins

” All thinking men are Atheists” ~ Ernest Hemingway

”Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity” ~ Arthur C. Clarke

”I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, or of future individuals, or of a personal god” ~ Thomas Edison

”I believe that all important matters must be settled here, not in the clouds” ~ Billy Joel

”The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women’s emancipation

”Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical in the occurrence of the improbible. A man of faith is simply one who has lost or never had the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is acctually ill” ~ H.L. Mencken

”I turned to speak to god, about the worlds despair; but to make bad matters worse, I found he simply wasn’t there” ~ Robert Frost

”by the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God” ~ Gloria Steinem

”When I think of all the harm the bibble has done, I despair of writing anything to equal it” ~ Oscar Wilde

Religion does three things effectively: Divides people, controles people, and deludes people” ~ Carlespie McKinney

”Gods are fragile things; they can be killed with a whiff of science or a dose of commen sence” ~ Chapman Cohen

”Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest” ~ Denis Diterot

”You are a good person because you fear damnation. I am a good person without obligation” ~ Guillermo Garcia

”If only god would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank” ~ Woody Allen

”There are two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence” ~ Abu Ala Al-Ma-arri

”Suppose we’ve chosen the wrong God. Every time we go to church we’re just making him madder” ~ Homer Simpson

”Prayer has no place in public schools just like facts have no place in church” ~ Superintendent Chalmers

”I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but recieved no answers until I prayed with my legs” ~ Frederick Douglas

” I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied without understanding the world” – Richard Dawkins

” As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers” ~ Robert Ingersoll

” Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions” ~ Blaise Pascal

”You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes and you say we need help” ~ Dan Barker

”You can not convince a believer in anything; their beliefe is not based on evidence but a deep seated need to believe” ~ Carl Sagan

”I have seldom met an intelligent person who’s views were not narrowed and distorted by religion” ~ James Buchanan