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Martin Amis Quotes about Atheism

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Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Martin Amis
Religious, Religion, Atheism
"The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them... A religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Martin Amis
Religious, Reality, Atheism
"Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin". Martin Amis' lecture at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, iop.harvard.edu. January 30, 1997.

It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

Martin Amis
Atheist, Mind, Atheism
"The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2002.

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