Atheism Quotes - Page 11

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Misery motivates, not utopia.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion and thus bringing sin and death into world, then one may as well throw the rest of the Bible away.

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.

Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.

This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than any belief in the history of mankind. Yet this doctrine was taught unambiguously by Jesus.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.