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.

At a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.

ATHEISM = Liberation through Reason and Knowledge.

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.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.