Atheism Quotes - Page 26

Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on its conscience. There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it.

Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.

Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you pray?

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!

I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose.