“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”
— Gene Roddenberry
“I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.”
— Galileo Galilei
“Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.”
— Unknown
“I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.”
— Doug McLeod
“Fear believes – courage doubts. Fear falls upon the earth and prays – courage stands erect and thinks. Fear retreats – courage advances. Fear is barbarism – courage is civilization. Fear believes in witchcraft, in devils and in ghosts. Fear is religion, courage is science.”
— Robert Ingersoll
“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfuly as when they do it for religious convictions.”
— Blaise Pascal
“The only difference between religion and superstition is the spelling.”
— Ukjent
“My sister once claimed she spun out of control into oncoming traffic. When she looked up, she was in the opposite lane and unharmed. She said that the hand of God moved from one lane into the other – to save her. I replied, “If the hand of God can not prevent genocide in Rwanda, then it can not move you so as to save your life.””
— Joe
“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
— Stephen Roberts
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
— Isaac Asimov
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”
— Albert Einstein
“I would defend the liberty of concenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
— Seneca the Younger
“The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called “faith”.”
— Robert Ingersoll
“I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.”
— Galileo Galilei
“Man invented God to deal with the concept of infinity.”
— Doon
“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.”
— Ernestine Rose
“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.”
— Albert Einstein
“A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.”
— Edward De Bono
“Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.”
— Robert G. Ingersoll
“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.”
— Steven Weinberg
“There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.”
— Richard Lederer
“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”
— Delos B. McKown
“Blasphemy is a victimless crime.”
— Unknown
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
— Epicurus
“If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.”
— Woody Allen
“Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.”
— F. M. Knowles
“The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it.”
— Robert G. Ingersoll
“Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence.”
— Unknown
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