Gore Vidal Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

  Gore Vidal

  Educational, Race, People

  "At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal (Appendix), 1988.

• Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

  Gore Vidal

  Atheist, Kings, Father

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

• Christianity is such a silly religion.

  Gore Vidal

  Silly, Religion, Atheism

• The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.

  Gore Vidal

  God, Country, Father

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

• Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

  Gore Vidal

  Jesus, Names, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be a source of infinite satisfaction to them, individually, I shouldn't for one second be so presumptuous as to make a choice among the many thousands of recorded revelations of truth, accepting one at the expense of all the others: I might so easily choose wrong and get into eternal trouble. And you must admit that the selection is wide, and dangerous to the amateur.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Choices, Atheism

• I'm a born - again atheist.

  Gore Vidal

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

  Gore Vidal

  Atheist, Self, Catholic

  Gore Vidal (1987). “Armageddon?: essays 1983-1987”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

• The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

  Gore Vidal

  Punishment, Ideas, Religion

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Apr 07, 2015

• Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

  Gore Vidal

  Atheist, Dust, Atheism

  Gore Vidal (1965). “The City and the Pillar Revised: Including an Essay: Sex and the Law, and An Afterword”, New American Library of Canada

• I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

  Gore Vidal

  Believe, Atheism, I Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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