These are some of my favorite quotes dealing with Atheism,,,,
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
Richard Dawkins
"Think about it - it's the easiest, crappiest music in the world, right? If we just sing about how much we love Jesus, all the Christians will"
buy our crap.
Eric Cartman
"If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it -- the life of that man is one long sin against mankind."
William Cliffor
"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls."
Albert Einstein
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
Buddha
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The Bible as we have it contains elements that are scientifically incorrect or even morally repugnant. No amount of 'explaining away' can convince us that such passages are the product of Divine Wisdom."
Bernard J. Bamberger
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church."
Thomas Paine
"Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand . . . . My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race."
Bertrand Russell
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
Friedrich Nietzsch
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
Thomas Jefferson
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
Thomas Paine
"The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
George Bernard Shaw
"An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question."
John McCarthy
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
Susan B. Anthony
"Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has 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 list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money."
George Carlin
"Lighthouses are more helpful then churches."
Benjamin Franklin
"Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watch
"We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder."
Bill Maher, fired from ABC for telling the truth
"I thought the Jews killed God, I’d worship the Jews."
Bill Hicks
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."
Isaac Asimov
"I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder."
Bill Maher
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
Richard Dawkins {The God Delusion}
"Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. "
H. L. Mencken
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian.
Mark Twain
"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live."
Gov. Jesse Ventura
"If Jesus were among us today, he’d bitch-slap George Bush, Mel Gibson, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly for using Christ as political cannon-fodder."
Thurston Wells
"I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally."
--Bill Maher
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
Bertrand Russell
"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."
Friedrich Nietzsche (Gee, and to think, Dubya has abused both.)
"So Dubya goes to war because god told him to. There's a woman down in Texas who bashed in her kid's skulls for the same reason."
Ed Krebs
"Religion is the most dangerous energy source known to humankind. The moment a person (or government or religion or organization) is convinced that God is either ordering or sanctioning a cause or project, anything goes. The history, worldwide, of religion-fueled hate, killing, and oppression is staggering."
Eugene Peterson (from the introduction to the book of Amos in the Bible paraphrase The Message)
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
Chapman Cohen
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross."
Sinclair Lewis
"You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do."
Anne Lamott
"The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma."
Abraham Lincoln
"A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some"
Harry Blackmun
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
Dan Barker
"There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the dark ages."
Ruth Hermence Green
"Organized Religions have nothing to do with spirituality or an individual's relationship with the higher power they believe in. They are tools used by people to keep large numbers of followers walking the path they promote and to further their own agendas."
Scott Bannon
“You either have a God who sends child rapists to rape children or you have a God who simply watches it and says, ‘When you’re done, I’m going to punish you.’If I could stop a person from raping a child, I would. That’s the difference between me and your God.”
Tracie Harris
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian.
Mark Twain
"Science is the only thing that disproves science, and it does it all the time."
Matt Dillahunty
"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live."
Gov. Jesse Ventura
"The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion."
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
The people who are constantly striving to apply skepticism to everything in their lives, the ones who actually care enough about truth and [care to try to] avoid being wrong, and biased, and prejudiced, and clueless; those are the people we need, and need to be.
Matt Dillahunty
"I'll live for me and for other real people. Until some god gives me five minutes of their time...they deserve none of mine."
Matt Dillahunty
I don't know how we can fix a world where people have been so convinced that they are doing the right thing out of compassion and love and trying to help people when it is absolute poison. When it is absolutely destructive.
Matt Dillahunty
"The idea that the Christian god is just, is directly contradicted by the idea that the Christian god is merciful. Perfect justice and any mercy are necessarily directly in contradiction, because mercy is a suspension of justice.
Matt Dillahunty
If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to that person and not blow it all off and hope that some God is going to forgive me and make it all go away. That sort of mentality is what allows people to not treat others in a way that is good.
Matt Dillahunty
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.
Unknown
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
Richard Dawkins
