atheists are the most faithful people I ever met

Self talk and self prayer: When you audible the first and correctly interpret, the white coats correct you in a nuthouse. When you audible the second and misinterpret, the dinner coats swear you to an...

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist’s is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science...

Some foolish men declare that creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill advised and should be rejected. If God created the world, where was he before the creation? If...

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

Our atheist thoughts go out to his family following their loss.

Menyerang gadis pakai kerudung tidak terus berarti modern, membela atheism tidak terus berarti modern, dan sebaliknya

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…

To believe in God is impossible – to not believe in Him is absurd

I was sent a copy of Richard Dawkins’ amusing book, The God Delusion, by an anonymous donor, so I feel I should at least try to review it. This isn’t easy. I got as far...

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely atheist, but made fun of the gods and their prophets and oracles.

The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

The fervor and single-mindedness of this deification probably have no precedent in history. It’s not like Duvalier or Assad passing the torch to the son and heir. It surpasses anything I have read about the...

Once the wounded child awakens to its human self, a primal scream emerges from the depths of denial like the Kraken released from its underwater prison.

Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don’t.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as...

Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I’m sure we’ll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around...

Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe...

Was it not part of the secret black art of truly grand politics of revenge, of a farseeing, subterranean, slowly advancing, and premeditated revenge, that Israel must itself deny the real instrument of its revenge...

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either. I don’t believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame — Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

Plain speaking is necessary in any discussion of religion, for if the freethinker attacks the religious dogmas with hesitation, the orthodox believer assumes that it is with regret that the freethinker would remove the crutch...

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before...

In order to put an end to our conflicts; we must put an end to the religions people stupidity.

The reason why God doesn’t show his face is because he stands behind a wall that can be broken.

I am an atheist and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate the idealism that wrenches man out of nature; I am not ashamed of...

I’d ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I’d ask why 99% of all species there ever were are now extinct — if God works in...

One day when I was praying, it suddenly occurred to me thatI was talking to myself.

Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests

How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little girls should revolt the westerner but excite no disapproval when it is performed...

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.

If it turns out that there is a God…the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.

Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by ‘truth’. But so is everybody else. I am no more fundamentalist when I say evolution is true than...

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination – an inability to tolerate mistery.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have – and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is – a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue....

How do you know when you’re God?” “When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

Not knowing the answer to a question is not a valid excuse for making up a fairytale to explain it.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

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.

Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn’t like most of it. He seemed to care about minute aspects of my life, like...

Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes ofa being that does not exist.

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.