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The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.
Sep 30, 2025
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.
Question with boldness even the existence of a god.
A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion.
For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
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.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
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.
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; 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.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.