Atheism Quotes - Page 24

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies that somebody falsely claims the right to tolerate. Toleration is a concession, while liberty is a right. Toleration is a matter of expediency, while liberty is a matter of principle.

God's nature is revealed most perfectly in the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the New Testament of the Bible, who was sent by God to reveal the divine nature, summarized in 'God is Love.'

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.