I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

I was brought up Catholic. I’m lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I’m an atheist.

Religion is a distraction from true education.

I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I...

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

You’re basically killing each other to see who’s got the better imaginary friend.

Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God’s behalf. This ‘blasphemy of certainty’...

the miraculous” is the impossible. He knows that the witnesses were wholly incapable of examining the questions involved, that credulity had possession of their minds, that ‘the miraculous’ was expected, that it was their daily...

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

If you will trust your destiny it will be your religion.

The defiance of the good atheist hurled at an apparently ruthless and idiotic cosmos is really an unconscious homage to something in or behind that cosmos which he recognizes as infinitely valuable and authoritative: for...

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made...

I’d be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn’t believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don’t think it does.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so,it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that gaurds the door,and this dragon is religion

Isn’t atheism just another religion?’ No, it isn’t. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy,...

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.

People choose these experiences before birth to learn human lessons of rape.” I asked her about world hunger, sex trafficking, genocide, and torture, and she replied with the same logic. At that moment, I realized...

He had remained steadfast in agnosticism and therefore, as Mabel took comfort in remarking, ‘he never denied God.’ Neither did he affirm God.

An effort was made to spread this new materialist atheism with its Communist consequence “by the sword” (as the metaphor goes), that is, by the invasion of neighboring countries with consequent further massacres and the...

The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in...

…..I believe in you and me. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you...

He said he thinks he’s God, and I said, In that case, I’m an atheist.

Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.

By the way, a Bulgarian I met lately in Moscow,” Ivan went on, seeming not to hear his brother’s words, “told me about the crimes committed by Turks and Circassians in all parts of Bulgaria...

The claim of fine tuning is subjective. As I stated before, no measurement in physics is perfect. The amount of precision we demand can be increased or decreased at our whim. We could have an...

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam — good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied...

There is one element in Christianity which was not borrowed from Paganism — religious intolerance. Referring to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, a writer on China says: ‘Between the followers of the three national religions there...

I am an atheist but I promise whenever there is complete freedom of religion I would worship you as my private and individual God.

Storyboarded by the West Coast’s finest, the ceiling celebrated the exploits of that most durable of action heroes—God.

No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow...

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.

En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para...

Religion is a non-alcoholic man’s alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man’s religion.

Theology is ignorance with wings.

Lies don’t make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

He’s not god! He’s just the asshole who fucks with us.

But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.

This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with...

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man’s logic and no man’s ecstatic fits may force me to find less silly my impossibly silly position: that...

I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.

Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.

Alfvén dismissed in his address religion as a ‘myth’…

But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never...

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.