I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

But mom's been depressed ever since her last boyfriend turned out to be a Republican.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

You know how hard it is to actually touch the world? To make a mark on it? You die and they bury you in it.

I don't really pay enough attention to what other people are doing.

No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless.

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power

I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.

Nap time would become a national pastime. A man needs his beauty rest!