Not all religions can be true, but they can all be false. Christopher Hitchens Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Carl Sagan That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens Any religion that denies the value and humanity of others is an extremist religion. Unknown Any religion that demands earthly vengeance and retribution for any reason is not a religion at all but a mental illness. Unknown Every religious thought, every sacred text, every holy scripture and every divine revelation initallity derives from a false assertion that there exists a god. Show me one single scrawny god. Harold J. Wolfe 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. Gloria Steinem Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling God made me such that I cannot believe.  Who are you to question God's wisdom? Unknown You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. Anonymous The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. Bertrand Russell We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach. Bertrand Russell Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. Bertrand Russell It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate." Bertrand Russell It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. Bertrand Russell You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of human feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or even mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. Bertrand Russell Your intelligence is measured by those around you; if you spend your days with idiots, you seal your own fate. Unknown If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God? George Deacon Faith is a belief in the absence of evidence, and is hereditary. Unknown Atheism is a non-prophet organization. Unknown What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. Christopher Hitchens Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen. Michel de Montaigne Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Denis Diderot All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. Stendhal The absence of evidence does not imply the evidence of absence. Unknown The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr. Prophet Muhammad Humanity without religion is like a serial killer without a chainsaw. Unknown A society without religion is like a crazed psychopath without a .45. Unknown Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies, each with two hundred billion stars, then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh? Ron Patterson Ho! Ho! Ho! Religion must go. George Carlin You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. Blaise Pascal Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Philip K. Dick Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.  If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.  If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.  If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world? Epicurus Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? Arthur C. Clarke How many omnipotent, omniscient, immortal and omnipresent Gods have died throughtout the history of our species. Where lies the graveyard of past Gods. Who tends to their mounds? Unknown Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. Thomas Paine We stand firm upon the bare proposition that God has spoken authoritatively and inerrantly in the pages of the Holy Scripture. Unknown I do not fear my death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slighest inconvenience from it." Mark Twain If God created the Universe, why is evidence of this creation so scant. He might have left Maxwell's equations in Egyptian hieroglyphs.  The Ten Commandments might have been engraved on the moon.  A hundred-kilometer crucifix could have been placed in Earth orbit.  Why can't God spell out my name in the starfields?  Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world of reality? Unknown Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Seneca the Younger 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. Ferdinand Magellan Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends. Woody Allen Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. Benjamin Franklin Everybody can be considered an atheist in the sense that they reject every God except their own God. The true atheist merely rejects one more God. Richard Dawkins Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue into eternity. Thomas Paine We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. Anonymous Christianity: The belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. Anonymous To infer that you have greater morality because you believe in God and read the Bible is like an infering that you are more loving because you read Mein Kempt. Harold J. Wolfe, 2008 The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983) British columnist If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel.  It is normal; we have taken their country.  It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them?  Our God is not theirs.  There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault?  They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country.  Why would they accept that? David Ben Gurion A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. Richard K. Morgan Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities. Voltaire The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. Delos B. McKown Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?" Jules Feiffer To the philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. Unknown 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 Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. Bill Maher A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. H. L. Mencken Religion is the art of sugar coating a turd and selling it to you as a doughnut. Pat Condell Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. Chapman Cohen "Atheist" is a compliment. It is indicative of a person's intelligence that he or she has worked through the conditioning we're all subjected to every day, the brainwashing that compels us to believe, without a single shred of evidence, that there's a heavenly host of characters in the sky (gods, virgins, angels, our dead relatives, and who knows who else) guiding human events on Earth. That they can be implored to act on our behalf and help us get jobs, win the lottery, marry someone we have the hots for, etc. Unknown

Atheist quotes It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning. People need to start appreciating the effort I put in to not become a serial killer. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted, and heaven crammed with these phantoms. I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. Investing in religion is like an investing in the stock that you are certain will pay dividends but only after the stockholder has died. HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon Here lies an atheist, All dressed up, And no place to go. -- EPITAPH Nah, there's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy away from full-fledged Christian. If Jesus was Jewish, how come he has a Mexican name? There are three religious truths: 1. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 2. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. 3. Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters. Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Secularism .. . has no mysteries, no mummeries, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions. If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. There is in every village a torch: the schoolmaster—and an extinguisher: the parson. Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. If there were not God, there would be no atheists. Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine? If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God? Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: "Whoever saw angels with sandals?" Angelo answered with another question: "Whoever saw an angel barefooted?" -ROBERT G. INGERSOLL When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me. - FIDEL CASTRO God, Satan, Paradise and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. I recall it vividly. I was at school in England by then. The moment of awakening happened, in fact, during a Latin lesson, and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. I remember feeling that my survival confirmed the correctness of my new position. —SALMAN RUSHDIE "The Good Book"—one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined. Civilization will not attain to its perfection, until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest! I find it necessary to take a shower after coming in contact with deeply religious people. Same with lawyers. A government ruled by or in conjunction with a religion; a church-state. Union of church a nd state. Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece. God makes man with breasts and nipples before he considers making woman.

An agnostic is an atheist still hedging his bets. An agnostic is an atheist without balls. Dietary restrictions were not an individual choice, they instead were canonized to protect the whole village, society, etc from the things that were unknown but observable. It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so. The absence of evidence does not imply the evidence of absence. What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence The vices of the Catholic church do less harm than their virtues. I fail to see how your idea would help to maximize donations to the church. Could you walk me through the finances of that? With talk like that, you're definitely going to get put on the "Burn at the stake" list. I prefer hanging, but to each his own I guess. The dominant oppressive god in MY country is less sadistic than the dominant oppressive god in YOUR country. My god's dick is bigger than your god's dick. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum Self evident Biblical Truth extreme psychotic megalomaniac paranoia The fact that you and I could improve the Bible with very little thought, just by taking out the worst passages that have no possible redeemable content... is a problem for the idea that it was written by an omniscient being and not to be superseded by any human effort." No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought hell. The essence of Christianity: God fathered himself and sent himself to sacrifice himself to himself to save us from himself. God has been officially diagnosed with Dissociative identity disorder You have to presuppose God's existence before accepting his existence! We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. - primeval religious fruitcakes A religious lunatic of the highest order. Who can resist lobsters, shrimps, crabs, clams, pork chops and hot fresh bacon strips? 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 Only in religion does LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer) even matter. What if God had told Abraham to suck his sons dick instead of chopping his head off? You may think that is a sick question but I say the god that asks you to kill your son is a much worse monster than the one who tells you to suck your sons dick. Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the improbable. - H. L. Mencken the occurence of the highly improbable. the occurence of the impossible. Christianity is a confederation of cults. Some large, some small. Religions are just cults that have withstood the test of time. Holy water's cleansing properties may be overstated If you believe in absurdities you can commit atrocities You should not go into religion, as there's nothing of value to look at. I grew up in the bondage of religion and escaped two decades ago. Religious people live in an alternate reality where their understanding of existence makes no sense in our objective reality. When is the Bible accurate? When it's thrown from a short distance. The bible isn't a best selling book so much as a best selling house ornament. On God inseminating Mary at age 14. If you get to drown almost everybody on the planet why wouldn't you be allowed to rape somebody from time to time? Then again, rape is usually defined as penetration without consent. I'm not sure the laws are set up to handle someone spontaneously spawning holy jizz in your fallopian tubes Of course, the Immaculate Conception (of Mary) clearly indicates a plan to rape her. God waited patiently for 14 years to rape her. The sex drive is one of the basic components of all living things. It's basic to life. It's sad to deliberately deprive oneself of something so biologically central to your being. Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Quran. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about nazism. The time to believe there's a divine creator is when there's credible evidence for it -- not a nanosecond before. intimidating preachers and fire breathing bible bangers screaming at you to repent bunch of uneducated redneck evangelical protestant preachers? We deserve it because we are inherently filthy and sinful creatures (because god made us that way). We are so lucky to have a God that is merciful and gracious enough to save us from hell (the hell that he created and willfully sends people to). I get tremendous satisfaction that I am offending religious people using their own book He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord. (Deuteronomy 23:1) You can't desecrate what's not sacred. Every religion has for its foundation a miracle - that is to say, a violation of nature - that is to say, a falsehood. sha-man (noun): a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. Typically such people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practice divination and healing. The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it. -- Robert A. Heinlein Living a Lie: We Deceive Ourselves to Better Deceive Others Gods are manifestations of human desires, fears, insecurities and ignorance. You can lead a theist to facts, but you can't make them think. If you accept the possibility of supernatural events then the impossible is possible and nonsense makes sense. Noah's Ark: Because the largest and most thorough act of genocide in fictional history makes a great children's story. God works in mysterious, ineffective and breathtakingly cruel ways. If a believer demands that I as a non-believer observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked. The notion that people walk around with the bible that demands the death of millions is absurd. Exodus 20:8, Exodus 31:15 Kill those of work on the sabbath (fourth commandment) Psalm 19:7 The law of the lord is perfect. First Commandment: Thou shall have no other gods before me. Deuteronomy 17:2-5: stone atheists Deuteronomy 13:13-19 destroy non-believing towns Leviticus 24:16 blasphemy A child with an invisible friend has an active imagination. An adult with an invisible friend has religion. The gods that we've made are exactly the kind of gods you would expect to be made from a species that's about half a chromosome away from being a chimpanzee -- Christopher Hitchens Flat Earthers: because apparently religion is not enough bullshit on its own. Propitiation is the act of appeasing or making well-disposed a deity, thus incurring divine favor or avoiding divine retribution. While some use the term interchangeably with expiation, others draw a sharp distinction between the two The more you know, the further away you get from God The less you know, the closer you get to God In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky... there is no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.” Religion is a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. Oscar Wilde

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