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“I once had a published written debate with a religious apologist who, after I had argued the standard line that the idea of a loving and merciful deity is inconsistent with the fact of natural evil...”
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes r...”
“[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.”
“Evildoesnt mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to the Christian majoritys private liking.”
“The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society.”
“Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it'...”
“The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of...”
“Is it necessary that Heaven should borrow its light from the glare of”
“By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist.”
“It's a random universe. Shit happens. Good people get stage 4 cancer and dipshits win the lottery. There is no justice. Everything doesn't always come out square in the end. Life isn't some elegant...”
“I am an atheist thank God!”
“I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.”
“The fool hath said in his heart There is no God.”
“By night an atheist half believes in God.”
“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, w...”
“So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?”
“The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.”
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim...”
“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”
“This is our recurring temptation—to live within our camp’s caves, taking turns both as the shadow-puppeteers and the audience. We chant our camp’s mantras repeatedly so they continue reverberating ...”
