Atheism Quotes - Page 3

Kill them all, for God knows His own.

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

The equal toleration of all religions...is the same as atheism.

Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.