Quotes
Religion is against women’s rights and women’s freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
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?
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.
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his father and mother. It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. Science will bring, not a sword, but peace.
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration – courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
No Gods – No Masters.
I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
ATHEISM = Liberation through Reason and Knowledge.
No Gods – No Masters.
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.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his father and mother. It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. Science will bring, not a sword, but peace.
“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration – courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
Existentialism isn’t so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn’t exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.
The Bible and Church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women’s emancipation.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.
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.
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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?
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.