Best Atheist Quotes

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

 

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence...

Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes

 

Yes! straight fiyahhhh

 

I shall bookmark this for future use. These work for Agnostics too

 

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe.

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ..But He loves you.

 

It's not the ten things of what not to do why you would burn. It's the one thing that you don't do is why you would burn.

 

Nehemiya will be here to tell you why you're goin to hell and why god is true based on the scripture soon.

 

"Blah" BLAH BLAH BLAH

Just kidding

GReat post. It seems that many of these are from DP, correct?

 

no from mine collection

 

George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.

The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

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

 

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet

Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence.

Man created God in his image : intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

 

Your earlier quotes were funnier. Page bookmarked too. Well spoken mrwordsworth.

 

thnx mate

 

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people.

You keep believing, I'll keep evolving

I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

 

mrwordsworth, you're biased.

 

Waiting for more. Subscribed.

 

what?
what Israel and Palestine has to do with me?

 

It was just a tongue-in-cheek taunt.

I wanted to use the word "biased" in a different way.

 

That article you linked to is laughable. According to that guy Israel launching an offensive in retaliation to their civilians gettin killed is a crime against humanity because they couldn't diferentiate between enemy combatants and civilians, but, its ok for Palestine to do it. That cracks me up.

/off topic.

GREAT, keep them coming. Nehemiya is busy coming up with retorts for these. Keep him on his toes. Maybe he is scared?

 

Ya i would love to see him say "according to the scripture" these quotes are wrong