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“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creationis that good for the world?”
“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, fearle...”
“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of lightyears and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the in...”
“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people t...”
“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a ma...”
“The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.”
“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”
“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”
“Atheism isnt a growth model any more than I dont like rollerblading is a workout strategy.”
“An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said.An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape ...”
“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 fifty percent rate. Half the time I get what I want, half t...”
“There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.”
“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.”
