Browsing Topic Best Anti Religious Quotes

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

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.

Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, ’tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

I’m proud to be an atheist – it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

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

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.

Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

I don’t perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that the Earth is 6,000 years old. As I understand it, this involves the Bible’s Old Testament exclusively.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

The family that prays together…is brainwashing their children.

Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn’t anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters–and you know how reporters are. They’ll do anything for a story.

A man’s ethical behaviour 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.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

How do I know the Bible isn’t the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand…considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

I don’t know anyone less Jesus like than Christians.

Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more consideration than non-religious beliefs or anti-religious ones. I never agree with that foolish statement that I ought to respect the views of others when I believe them to be wrong.

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every 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 principle enemy of moral progress in the world.