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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
there's no room with all the Christians down there. — Quentin R. Bufogle
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