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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

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

Religion is based … mainly upon fear … fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

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.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don’t… Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe…same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat’s testicles, it’s all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.

Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It’s what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.

There’s a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of human beings. Children and the elderly in tropical regions (usually the poorest) are the most widely affected. A painful, slow death is virtually certain. The worm can actually live in the host for 17 years before the host finally dies.

Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

God is the celebrity author of the world’s best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands – a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

I’m a born – again atheist.