Atheism Quotes - Page 54

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.

Atheism is easy in fair weather.

Atheism - Your Gain, No Pain!

If there were a god, there would be no need for religion. If there were not a god, there would be no need for religion.

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What’s more reassuring than noticing that some other people, whom you admire, are so certain that it’s all true that they’re willing to go the ultimate mile?

It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.

Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.

Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.

Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing."

In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism.

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.

Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.