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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.
Oct 1, 2025
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn’t take me long to conclude that it was simply too far-fetched to be credible. I realized that if I were to embrace Darwinism and its underlying premise of naturalism, I would have to believe that: 1. Nothing produces everything 2. Non-life produces life 3. Randomness produces fine-tuning 4. Chaos produces information 5. Unconsciousness produces consciousness 6. Non-reason produces reason....The central pillars of evolutionary theory quickly rotted away when exposed to scrutiny.
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
Question with boldness even the existence of a god.
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.
Man created God in his own image.
All religions have been made by men.
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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.
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 religion.
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe - they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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