Atheism Quotes - Page 31

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.

Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.

God is man idealized.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

Some people do not eat cow meat. I do so, provided it's tender.

If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.

Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous.

Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to study the universe by the methods of science, without consoling ourselves with fairy tales about its future, or about our own.

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.

Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.