"What happens when we're dead? The irony is that all our questions wil be answered after we die. We spend our whole life trying to figure out the truth and the only way we'll find out what it is, is to get hit by a bus. And the only comfort that religion offers is that God is driving that bus." - John Ryman, When Galaxies Collide
"We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake." - Catherine Fahringer
"If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction." - Judith Hayes
"A believer is not a thinker and a thinker is not a believer." - Marian Noel Sherman, M.D.
"If god doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you." Author Unknown.
"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." - Author Unknown
"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish." - Author Unknown
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect, had intended for us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
"One might be asked "How can you prove that a god does not exist?" One can only reply that it is scarcely necessary to disprove what has never been proved." - David A. Spitz
"Atheism is a requirement for a complete human being. Religion is a crutch that is shackled to you, one you never really needed in the first place, but were convinced by others that you couldn't live without. Once you discover it's only an illusion, that it's not even a real crutch, you discard it gladly." - Brent Yaciw
"I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other gods you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
"God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom?"
"Our ignorance is God; what we know is science." - Robert Ingersoll
"There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages." - Richard Lederer, Anguished English
"Why be born again, when you can just grow up?"
"Power corrupts; Absolute power corrupts absolutely; God is all-powerful. Draw your own conclusions." Author Unknown.
"Organized religion is responsible for the brainwashing of millions of young children too young to know the difference between reality and the fantasies of millions. Save Yourself. Drop Christianity."
"Out of convicted rapists, 57% admitted to reading pornography. 95% admitted to reading the Bible."
"Man created God in his own image."
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means."
--George Bernard Shaw
"Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind."
--John A. Hutchinson
"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”
--Edmond de Goncourt
"It isn't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
--Mark Twain
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
--George Bernard Shaw
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike."
--Huang Po
"Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. 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."
--Dan Barker, former evangelist
"Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheist' is a term that should not ever exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a 'non astrologer' or a 'non-alchemist'. We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs. An atheist is simply a person who believes that the 260 million Americans (87 percent of the population) claiming to 'never doubt the existence of God' should be obliged to present evidence for his existence-and, indeed, for his BENEVOLENCE, given the relentless destruction of innocent human beings we witness in the world each day."
--Sam Harris, "Letter to a Christian Nation"
"Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity; you don’t realize how irritating it was ‘til it’s gone."
-unknown
"My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of Prayer,' when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place."
--Richard Dawkins
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
--Steven Weinberg
"I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence."
--Doug McLeod
"The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology."
--Sam Harris
"We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake." - Catherine Fahringer
"If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction." - Judith Hayes
"A believer is not a thinker and a thinker is not a believer." - Marian Noel Sherman, M.D.
"If god doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you." Author Unknown.
"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." - Author Unknown
"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish." - Author Unknown
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect, had intended for us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
"One might be asked "How can you prove that a god does not exist?" One can only reply that it is scarcely necessary to disprove what has never been proved." - David A. Spitz
"Atheism is a requirement for a complete human being. Religion is a crutch that is shackled to you, one you never really needed in the first place, but were convinced by others that you couldn't live without. Once you discover it's only an illusion, that it's not even a real crutch, you discard it gladly." - Brent Yaciw
"I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other gods you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
"God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom?"
"Our ignorance is God; what we know is science." - Robert Ingersoll
"There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages." - Richard Lederer, Anguished English
"Why be born again, when you can just grow up?"
"Power corrupts; Absolute power corrupts absolutely; God is all-powerful. Draw your own conclusions." Author Unknown.
"Organized religion is responsible for the brainwashing of millions of young children too young to know the difference between reality and the fantasies of millions. Save Yourself. Drop Christianity."
"Out of convicted rapists, 57% admitted to reading pornography. 95% admitted to reading the Bible."
"Man created God in his own image."
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means."
--George Bernard Shaw
"Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind."
--John A. Hutchinson
"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”
--Edmond de Goncourt
"It isn't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
--Mark Twain
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
--George Bernard Shaw
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike."
--Huang Po
"Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. 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."
--Dan Barker, former evangelist
"Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheist' is a term that should not ever exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a 'non astrologer' or a 'non-alchemist'. We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs. An atheist is simply a person who believes that the 260 million Americans (87 percent of the population) claiming to 'never doubt the existence of God' should be obliged to present evidence for his existence-and, indeed, for his BENEVOLENCE, given the relentless destruction of innocent human beings we witness in the world each day."
--Sam Harris, "Letter to a Christian Nation"
"Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity; you don’t realize how irritating it was ‘til it’s gone."
-unknown
"My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of Prayer,' when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place."
--Richard Dawkins
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
--Steven Weinberg
"I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence."
--Doug McLeod
"The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology."
--Sam Harris
