Quotes
I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Scientific research confirms that humans are a link in the evolutionary life chain. There is no credible evidence for the existence of an immortal supernatural element. Our only life is here and now. Make it worthy of a moral person.
At a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
ATHEISM = Liberation through Reason and Knowledge.
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
Hast thou reason? I have.
Why then dost not thou use it?
For if this does its own work,
what else dost thou wish?
The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; 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.
If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine – but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you’ve been bad or good – and CARES about any of it – to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.
To YOU I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the loyal opposition.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived.
ATHEISM = Liberation through Reason and Knowledge.
I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.
My neurologist once told me that people with temporal lobe epilepsy are very often intensely religious. Certainly just before I have a grand mal fit I have a ‘vision’ of such peace, joy and significance that I can only call it God. What does this say about the whole nature of religious vision? Certain episodes in the lives of the saints have acquired a new meaning for me. When Theresa of Avila had her three-day vision of hell, was she simply having a temporal lobe attack? The horrors she saw are similar to those I have experienced, but in her case informed by the religious imagery of her time. Like other saints who have ‘seen’ hell she describes an appalling stench, which is part of an epileptic aura. Is it possible that the feeling I have had all my life that something – God, perhaps? – is just over the horizon, something unimaginable but almost tangibly present, is simply the result of an electrical irregularity in my brain? It is a question that can’t yet be answered, unless it be that God, if He exists, could have created us with that capacity for Him, glimpsed at only when the brain is convulsed. What I can say, however, is that if my ‘visions’ have sometimes let me into ‘Hell’ they have also given me possible intimations of a Heaven which I would not have been without.
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
At a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will – and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
Religion is against women’s rights and women’s freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”