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If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise. — Alan S. Kesselheim

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity. — Barbara G. Walker

If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision. — M.F. Moonzajer

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit. — Richard Pryor

Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms. — Sam Harris

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence. — Sam Harris

Theology is ignorance with wings. — Sam Harris

The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith. — Robert G. Ingersoll

If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate. — Jerry Falwell

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education. — Luther Burbank

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be. — Desiderius Erasmus

A life based on [religious] faith is a life based on pure speculation, and speculation is, by its very definition, unsound. — Michael Vito Tosto

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism. — Ronald Knox

Revealed religion has no weight with me. — Benjamin Franklin

The origin and the operation of the universe do not require any violations of the laws of physics. — Victor J. Stenger

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

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. — Sam Harris

The family that prays together ... is brainwashing their children. — Albert Einstein

We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. — George W. Bush

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind. — Henry De Montherlant

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

Darwin is my copilot. — T. Rafael Cimino

One does not have to prove a negative. One should assume a negative. — David Eller

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

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don't really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion. — Penn Jillette

No the first day, man crea tee God — Daniel Delgado F.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity. — Lee Strobel

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness. — Isaac Asimov

Faith doesn't move mountains, but people with faith - and shovels - will move mountains in order to defend their faith. — Aron Ra

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste. — George Bernard Shaw

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks ... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable. — George Meredith

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that. — Bill Maher

How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it? — Pete Hautman

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all. — Wendy Kaminer

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master. — Mark Twain

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

Every morning I wake up and thank God that I don't believe in him. — Mike Malloy

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains. — Al-Ma'arri

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning. — Michael Shermer

God might not be dead, but he's sure as hell missing in action. — Quentin R. Bufogle

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country. — William Rainey Harper

Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers. — Rabia Basri

God is Santa Claus for Grown-Ups. — Oliver Markus

There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators; but we must not forget that the religion is still out there. — M.F. Moonzajer

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism. — Daniel Dennett

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident. — Stephen Jay Gould

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop? — Robert L. Park

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart ... — H.G.Wells

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him. — Bertrand Russell

No diety will save us; we must save ourselves. — Paul Kurtz

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis. — Robert A. Heinlein

I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not. — Bronislaw Malinowski

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time. — H.L. Mencken

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know. — Mark Twain

To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed — Bo Jinn

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. — Adolf Hitler

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

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

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

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

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

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

I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides. — Michael Marshall Smith

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

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

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies. — Peter Atkins

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

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

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

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

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised. — Ruth Hurmence Green

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

If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of religion. — M.F. Moonzajer

The greatest trick Christianity ever pulled was convincing the world that Satan exists. — Aaron B. Powell

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens

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

An atheist who is a statist is just another theist. — Stefan Molyneux

Religion + Good Works = Good Works
Solve for Religion. — Dan Barker

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'. — Susan B. Anthony

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion. — Honore De Balzac

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations. — Karl Popper

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. — Christopher Hitchens

He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart. — Karl Marx

The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down. — Ravi Zacharias

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions ... How many evils has religion caused? — Lucretius

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy. — Stefan Molyneux

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles. — James Madison

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. — Sam Harris