Atheism Quotes

You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists … or that He doesn’t.

I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.

When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to “please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.

Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself.

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.

Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.

I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.

I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief.(Conversations pg 96)

I don't believe in God, I only believe in Al Pacino, and that's the truth.

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.

Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.

in the name of a god who was always a ghost

Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces.

All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die

Whenever I see all around, I see nothing except atoms & molecules

People will say, "there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell.

Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.

I, too, have to end up worshipping at the altar where God’s name is truth.

What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do." - Nathan Phelps

Jesus would pray to himself and cry. I often do the same.

I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The true prince of evil- the king of the slaves!

When Jesus said “Whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life” John 6:54 He was CLEARLY talking to Zombies & Vampires

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God’s existence isn’t important. It’s what we do with what we’ve got that counts.

It is pointless and impossible to maintain a modern ideology based on inaccurate memories of a dead and distant past.

[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.

The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society.

Is it necessary that Heaven should borrow its light from the glare of

By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist.

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.

We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.

Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as meaningful as a few germs being angry at humans about bleach.

But if they are shown to be, and are the works not of men but of God, why are the unbelievers so irreligious as not to recognize the Master Who did them?

I was hated, you know. I made no secret of the fact that I was an atheist. People told me there are no atheists in fox holes. That's nonsense. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)]

God' is an excuse to justify hate.

I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate.

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.

If God creates morality, then morality is nothing more than the whimsy of a divine being blindly followed by humans.

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

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

A rat in its stealing behavior may manage to steal gold jewelry and to make a nest with it but that does not in anyway qualify the rat to be a millionaire though it's gold pieces be worth that much.

It is about time that, atheist or no, we call a spade a spade, and outed lies, and suspicious statements are placed against the backdrop of a linguistic litmus test.

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

Faith is believing beyond the power of reason, when they're all against you. To one who has faith, no explanation is possible. To one without faith, evidence is necessary.

Archaeology digs the Bible’s grave.

How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!

No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head.