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• And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

  Neil Gaiman

  Rocks, Self, Atheism

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• I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Believe, Challenges, Atheism

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.189, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Theology is ignorance with wings.

  Sam Harris

  Ignorance, Wings, Religion

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• The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

  Rob Bell

  Ideas, Missing, Abuse

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.80, Harper Collins

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• Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Voice, Atheism

  Erica Jong (2013). “Sappho's Leap: A Novel”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• I guess it’s true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That’s atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Jace, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Believe, People, Atheism

  Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House

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• Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Ignorance, Atheism

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Religion, Steps

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• She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sake, Blame, Mrs Dalloway

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.107, Broadview Press

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• The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

  Carl Sagan

  Fall, Mean, Science

  "Scientists & Their Gods". U.S. News & World Report, Vol. 111, 1991.

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• We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Offering, Interesting, Suffering

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• Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

  Yann Martel

  Brother, Legs, Different

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.31, Vintage Canada

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• Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Existentialism, Ifs, Existential

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

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• People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, People, Atheism

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• Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Order

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• The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Father

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America

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• If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?

  Timothy Keller

  Strong, Judging, Doe

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.45, Penguin

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• So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

  Jim Butcher

  Fighting, Evil, Atheism

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.85, Penguin Group

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• Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Science, Religion, Atheism

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• [E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Science

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• Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Islands, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Ignorance, Men, Humanity

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Believe, Views, Criticism

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• I rightly pass for an atheist.

  Jacques Derrida

  Jacques Derrida, John D. Caputo (1997). “Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida”, p.20, Fordham Univ Press

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