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“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.”
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
“For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”
“All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.”
“Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.”
“They had...finished their lives before their death which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.”
“How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your credulity caused me! A thousand times I was on the point of breaking out publicly and openin...”
“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”
“Go ahead, God, you fat, filthy motherfucker, lightning-bolt my ass into oblivion if you're so tough!”
“There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.”
“I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To m...”
“I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I dont believe in Mother Goose.”
“New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a colossal, horrible shadow. God is dead, but given the way people are, there may still be caves for...”
“I don't know what I believe anymore. If God does exist, then He's just an asshole, creating this world full of human suffering and letting all these terrible things happen to good people, and sitti...”
“Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but...Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129)”
“Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.”
“The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.”
“Don't creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with the 'human leg and foot bones,' rather than the other way around, i.e., human skulls with 'ape leg ...”
“Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.”
“After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in wh...”
