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Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is. — James Agee

Love has no value in the absence of truth. — C.J. Anderson

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so. — Mark Twain

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself? — Augustine Of Hippo

When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection. — Francesc Ferrer I Guardia

An atheist is as religious as a theist. — Kedar Joshi

Theology is ignorance with wings. — Sam Harris

There are no atheists in the foxhole. — Ernie Pyle

It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence. — Criss Jami

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Blindness to knowledge was his mother and despair of death his father. Darkness and fear gave birth to God. Awareness of truth will kill him. — C.J. Anderson

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing. — George Santayana

'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment. — Richard Dawkins

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them. — Luther Burbank

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual. — Herbert Spencer

Religion suits everyone's needs, believers, agnostics, atheists and god, just in case it exists — Daya Kudari

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Darwin is my copilot. — T. Rafael Cimino

He had remained steadfast in agnosticism and therefore, as Mabel took comfort in remarking, 'he never denied God.' Neither did he affirm God. — Robert V. Bruce

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted. — Adolf Hitler

Do I believe? God only knows. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable. — W. Somerset Maugham

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. — Paul Dirac

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down. — Don Marquis

No other single innovation had so much impact on history. — Rodney Stark

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies. — Peter Atkins

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion. — Carl Sagan

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out. — Richard P. Feynman

Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality? — James Madison

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech. — Dan Barker

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy. — George Carlin

Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. — James G. Frazer

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? — Epicurus

Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want. — Roy Moore

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man. — William Winwood Reade

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right. — H.L. Mencken

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion. — Richard Dawkins

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority. — Stephen Colbert

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference. — Jewel

People say it is impossible to get out of stupidity; well, I was born religious and here I am an atheist. — M.F. Moonzajer

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy — Austin O'Malley

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God? — Plato

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Liberty's chief foe is theology. — Charles Bradlaugh

If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded — Charles Hodge

An atheist's response to a creationist asking 'what if' there was a God,
That would be quite an unsettling thought. — Anonymous

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony. — Josiah Warren

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. — Martin Amis

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation. — Norman Douglas

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life? — Daniel Dennett

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. — Harold Lasswell

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher. — Heraclitus

Just because Jimmy Swaggart believes in God doesn't mean that God does not exist. — Walker Percy

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

God doesn't send atheists to Hell
there's no room with all the Christians down there. — Quentin R. Bufogle

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist. — Brian Eno

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. — Liam Neeson

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too. — John Dryden

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years? — John William Draper

It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar. — Silius Italicus

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name. — Emma Goldman

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Atheism is a belief system",
is like saying "not going skiing, is a hobby. — Ricky Gervais

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages. — Frank Zappa

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words. — Mary Todd Lincoln

How you can argue with those who whip, stone and murder people because they wanted to live their life? — M.F. Moonzajer

Religion is the last cultural barrier to gender equity. — Karen L. Garst

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe. — Billy Graham

The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity. — John E. Jones III

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude. — Karl Marx

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive. — Don Marquis

Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground. — Christopher Marlowe

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism. — Horace Mann

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed. — Richard Dawkins

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche

People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing. — Rodney Stark

A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends. — Scott Dikkers

An error becomes an error when born as truth. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Christians are losers. — Ted Turner

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it. — Ludwig Boltzmann

Bentham was an atheist and in no sense of the word could he be described as a theologian. — James E. Crimmins

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. — Clarence Darrow

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. — Voltaire

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief. — Dan Barker

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

When an atheist is born, a kitten kills a god. — C.P. McClennan

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith. — Penn Jillette

He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself. — Philo

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in. — Bill Gates

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date. — Isaac Newton

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism. — Dion Fortune

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours. — Johnny Hart