Best Atheism Quotes

Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?

Every one starts out being an atheist.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can’t be very important gods.

Atheism is a religion the way abstinence is a sex position.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

I’m probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don’t think anyone really knows. You’ll either find out or not when you get there, until then there’s no point thinking about it.

Lust is the cause of generationAppetite is the support of lifeFear or timidity is the prolongation of life, andFraud the preservation of its instruments.

You know, it’s a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.

Atheist is quite clear in its meaning of somebody without a belief in God. It is more complex in its usage since it has often been used to blacken anyone with the slightest doubt about the teachings of religion.

Agnostic is a much more recent word than atheist, coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean without knowledge of God and acquiring the usage of being doubtful about the existence of God.

That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America’s most important contribution to political progress on this planet.

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party, History, the Proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

Hmmm, completely a-religious – atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism’s coffin.

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

Bryan – a great friend of mine, by the way – had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

Belief in Some One’s right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.

Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution. He devises paradise fictions to provide succor and support… In acts of supreme self-deception, at various times and in various places he has been willing to profess belief in the most incredible myths because of what they have promised him.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring – not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

I write … in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved.