Atheism Quotes

• He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Liberty

• In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Kids
  • Interesting
  • President

• Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Thus I am certain that, were He among us today, Christ would encourage scientific research as modern man's most noble striving to comprehend and admire His Father's handiwork. The universe as revealed through scientific inquiry is the living witness that God has indeed been at work.

  

  Wernher von Braun
  • Certain
  • Research
  • Modern

• I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • May
  • Soul
  • Fear

• It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.

  

  William Anthony Donohue
  • Thinking
  • Religion
  • Christ

• I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.

  

  Michael Newdow
  • Government
  • Religious
  • Belief

• There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Mind
  • Joy
  • Religion

• It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • World
  • Men
  • Taken

• From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.

  

  Charles Chilton Moore
  • Earth
  • Atheism
  • Curse

• Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Wish
  • Religion
  • Prove

• This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the first woman out of a bone; that God cursed the whole human race because a snake made the woman eat an apple; that God had a son by another man's wife, and that he had this son murdered in order to keep himself from sending all the human race to hell.

  

  Charles Chilton Moore
  • Men
  • Wife
  • Son

• Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.

  

  Dan Barker
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Reason
  • Blood
  • Devil

• If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Son
  • Figures
  • Metaphor

• One day I was just looking at the coins is what brought this up. I saw "In God We Trust" on my coins. I said, "I don't trust in God," what is this? And I recalled there was something in the Constitution that said you're not allowed to do that and so I did some research. And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit. It's a cool thing to do. Everyone should try it.

  

  Michael Newdow
  • Things
  • Constitution
  • Realized

• It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Mean
  • Turns
  • Theism

• Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

  

  Ray Comfort
  • Thought
  • Anything
  • Atheism

• Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

  

  Wilhelm Stekel
  • Religion
  • Atheism
  • Screen

• Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the master. Now here comes the government telling us to humbly bow again.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Country
  • Prayer
  • Slavery

• Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

  

  William Hurrell Mallock
  • Positive
  • Forget
  • Atheism

• It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Remember
  • Religion
  • Believer

• I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Simple
  • Comfort
  • Atheist

• There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire lifetime. This does not disprove his existence, but it certainly casts great doubt on the historicity of a man who was supposedly widely known to have made a great impact on the world. Someone should have noticed.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Men
  • Jesus
  • Religion

• The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

  

  Charles Eliot Norton
  • Religious
  • Loss
  • Maturity

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