Atheist Quotes - Page 4

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

Religion is the opium of the masses.