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-Stephen Roberts I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours 8%92%
-unknown Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church 14%86%
Doug McLeod I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence 16%84%
-Blaise Pascal Men never commit evil so fully and joyfuly as when they do it for religious convictions 9%91%
-Seneca the Younger 4 b.c.- 65 a.d. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. 7%93%
-Unknown Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. 15%85%
-Emo Philips When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. 15%85%
-George Bernard Shaw 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 6%94%
-Carl Sagan You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe. 11%89%
-Epicurus 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? 17%83%
-Ferdinand Magellan 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 10%90%
-Bertrand Russell And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence 4%96%
-Unknown Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. 12%88%
-Richard Feynman But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me 18%82%
-H. L. Mencken 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 7%93%
-Richard Lederer (Anguished English) There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. 19%81%
-doesnt matter "It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand" -Mark Twain 13%87%
-Albert Einstein A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; 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 9%91%
-Robert G. Ingersoll As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers 3%97%
-Stephen Jay Gould Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage -- good teaching -- than a bill forcing honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?... [more] 13%88%
-Napoleon Bonaparte Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet 9%91%
-Friedrich Nietzsche Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? 11%89%
-Mark Twain The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also 6%94%
-Justin Brown An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated... [more] 15%85%
-Delos B. McKown The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike 12%88%
-Carl Sagon Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence 11%89%
-Galileo Galilei I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them 7%93%
-unknown People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs 19%81%
-Bertrand Russell So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence 19%81%
-Peter O'Toole (The Ruling Class) Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same. When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself 10%90%
Donald Morgan Jesus' last words on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here. 16%84%
Gene Roddenberry 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 11%89%
-Bumper sticker You keep believing, I'll keep evolving 18%82%
unknown Blasphemy is a victimless crime 18%82%
-Gustaf Lindborg The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail 24%76%
-Gypsy Rose Lee Praying is like a rocking chair-- it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere 20%80%
-Richard Dawkins Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. 15%85%
-Benjamin Franklin The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason 12%88%
Justin Brown If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going? 14%86%
-Lenny Bruce If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses 23%77%
-Chapman Cohen Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense 21%79%
-Carl Sagan Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature... [more] 14%86%
-Stephen King The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window 13%87%
-David Brooks (The Necessity of Atheism) To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy 13%87%
-Carl Sagan Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of the astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy. 20%80%
-Robert G. Ingersoll Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own? 21%79%
I-saac Asimov Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition 14%86%
-Sam Harris Whenever a man imagines that he need only believe the truth of a proposition, without evidence - that unbelievers will go to hell, that Jews drink the blood of infants - he becomes capable of anything 16%84%
-Robert G. Ingersoll God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. Most of the gods were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine a divine perfume... [more] 19%81%
-Stephen Hawking The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty... [more] 14%86%
-Friedrich Nietzsche In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point 25%75%
-Robert G. Ingersoll The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it 19%81%
-Karl Marx Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people 23%77%
-Stephen Roberts I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours 8%92%
-unknown Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church 14%86%
Doug McLeod I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence 16%84%
-Blaise Pascal Men never commit evil so fully and joyfuly as when they do it for religious convictions 9%91%
-Seneca the Younger 4 b.c.- 65 a.d. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. 7%93%
-Unknown Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. 15%85%
-Emo Philips When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. 15%85%
-George Bernard Shaw 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 6%94%
-Carl Sagan You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe. 11%89%
-Epicurus 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? 17%83%
-Ferdinand Magellan 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 10%90%
-Bertrand Russell And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence 4%96%
-Unknown Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. 12%88%
-Richard Feynman But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me 18%82%
-H. L. Mencken 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 7%93%
-Richard Lederer (Anguished English) There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. 19%81%
-doesnt matter "It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand" -Mark Twain 13%87%
-Albert Einstein A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; 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 9%91%
-Robert G. Ingersoll As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers 3%97%
-Stephen Jay Gould Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage -- good teaching -- than a bill forcing honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?... [more] 13%88%
-Napoleon Bonaparte Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet 9%91%
-Friedrich Nietzsche Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? 11%89%
-Mark Twain The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also 6%94%
-Justin Brown An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated... [more] 15%85%
-Delos B. McKown The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike 12%88%
-Carl Sagon Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence 11%89%
-Galileo Galilei I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them 7%93%
-unknown People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs 19%81%
-Bertrand Russell So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence 19%81%
-Peter O'Toole (The Ruling Class) Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same. When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself 10%90%
Donald Morgan Jesus' last words on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here. 16%84%
Gene Roddenberry 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 11%89%
-Bumper sticker You keep believing, I'll keep evolving 18%82%
unknown Blasphemy is a victimless crime 18%82%
-Gustaf Lindborg The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail 24%76%
-Gypsy Rose Lee Praying is like a rocking chair-- it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere 20%80%
-Richard Dawkins Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. 15%85%
-Benjamin Franklin The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason 12%88%
Justin Brown If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going? 14%86%
-Lenny Bruce If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses 23%77%
-Chapman Cohen Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense 21%79%
-Carl Sagan Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature... [more] 14%86%
-Stephen King The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window 13%87%
-David Brooks (The Necessity of Atheism) To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy 13%87%
-Carl Sagan Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of the astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy. 20%80%
-Robert G. Ingersoll Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own? 21%79%
I-saac Asimov Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition 14%86%
-Sam Harris Whenever a man imagines that he need only believe the truth of a proposition, without evidence - that unbelievers will go to hell, that Jews drink the blood of infants - he becomes capable of anything 16%84%
-Robert G. Ingersoll God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. Most of the gods were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine a divine perfume... [more] 19%81%
-Stephen Hawking The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty... [more] 14%86%
-Friedrich Nietzsche In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point 25%75%
-Robert G. Ingersoll The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it 19%81%
-Karl Marx Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people 23%77%
