Atheist Quotes - Page 17

• Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.

  Bill Hicks

  Revolutionary Ideas, Suffering, Atheism

  Bill Hicks (2009). “Love All the People (New Edition)”, p.239, Hachette UK

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• If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Philosophy, Humorous

  Love and Death (1975 film)

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• The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Atheism, Stubborn, Want

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• In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.

  Michael Shermer

  Funny, God, Past

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• Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?

  Richard Dawkins

  Dog, Thinking, Percent

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• In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Book, Devil, Three

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “The Real Face of Atheism”, p.25, Baker Books

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• As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

  John Adams

  Christian, Religious, Faith Religion

  "Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli". The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 04, 1796.

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• My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Men

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.

  Jacques Maritain

  Faith, Religious, Commitment

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• Only atheists attempt to comprehend god with their mind.

  Nicolaus Zinzendorf

  Mind

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• Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when pressed, the atheist will often attempt to hide his lack of conviction in his own beliefs behind some poorly formulated utilitarianism, or argue that he acts out of altruistic self-interest. But this is only post-facto rationalization, not reason or rational behavior.

  Theodore Beale

  Self, Religion, Atheism

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• I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.

  Galileo Galilei

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Galileo Galilei, Andrea Frova, Mariapiera Marenzana (2006). “Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day”, p.264, Oxford University Press

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• People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

  Sam Harris

  Strong, People, Our Society

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.225, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

  Frank Zappa

  Real, Differences, Estates

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• There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Angel, Heaven, Hell

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• It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Lying

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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• Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

  Voltaire

  Religion, Atheism, World

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• It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Golf, Player, Doubt

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• This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

  John Adams

  Religious, If There Is A God, Faith Religion

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”

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• I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god. Why are you in such a hurry to make up your mind? Why not simply wait until there is compelling evidence?

  Carl Sagan

  Christian, Wise, Islamic

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• God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

  Francis Bacon

  Miracle, Atheism, Ordinary

  Francis Bacon (1856). “Bacon's Essays”, p.135

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• If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?

  Carl Sagan

  Childhood, Religion, Monsters

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.149, Ballantine Books

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• Maybe there are only atheists in foxholes. If the faithful truly and fully believe in a protective deity, why would they dive into a foxhole to protect themselves from the bullets whizzing by ? A part of their brain knows damn well that if they do not protect themselves, the bullets will hardly discriminate between those who claim faith and those who reject it.

  J. Anderson Thomson

  Believe, Faithful, Doubt

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• Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

  Philip Appleman

  Profound, Simplicity, Meaning Of Life

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• If i believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God - and i believe that there is one. i think God would appreciate what i say, because i can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots

  Marilyn Manson

  Believe, Thinking, Appreciate

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