Some Atheism quotes (Christ, prophet, atheist, agnostic)

[Marodi]

“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands”

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche



“A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism”

-Donald Morgan


“Atheism is a non-prophet organization”

-George Carlin

[MaggieZ]

LOL a non prophet organization..that's right. But I don't agree with Nietzsche, that's narrowminded IMO.
That's it! I thouroughly read and understand the bible so I stopped believing anything in it...there ya go!!

[Wendell Phillips]

Whenever I come to a place where there are a lot of churches, I take comfort knowing that there's enough enough sin about to satisfy everyone.

[freedom]

Originally Posted by Marodi

“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands”

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche

His understanding is lacking.
God doesn't need our praises, we need to learn how to be thankful, again it is for our benefit, and God is ammune from the pride and errors that appear when weaker forms are idolized or praised.

All things are for our joy and completion.

“A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism”

-Donald Morgan

Not for the majority of the population. He obviously did not read with an open mind or heart.

“Atheism is a non-prophet organization”

-George Carlin

That's a good one....lol....lol....lol
I wish churches were non Profit, then they would have true Prophets.

godpspeed,

freedom

[Mooseketeer]

Sorry I duplicated this post and tried to erase it but it didn't work out.

[Wendell Phillips]

George Bernard Shaw was once asked what he thought of Christianity. He paused to consider for a moment, and then, with a sly smile, answered: "I don't know; it might work if anyone ever tried it."

[Mooseketeer]

Originally Posted by Marodi

“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands”

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche



“A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism”

-Donald Morgan


“Atheism is a non-prophet organization”

-George Carlin

I love those, Nietzsche's second one is priceless ! Thanks for those.




Stephen Roberts :

"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 ".


Seneca the Younger : " Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful "

Richard Jeni :" You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend ".

George Bernard Shaw : "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"

Epicurus : "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? "

Anon : Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned .


Gene Roddenberry :" 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".


Anon :"Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church".

Anon : "Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer ".

Napoleon Bonaparte : " Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet "

Delos B. McKown :"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike ".

Robert A. Heinlein :"Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child ".

Carl Sagan :" Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence ".

Voltaire :"Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities ".

Thomas Jefferson :"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology".

Friedrich Nietzsche :"Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? " ( one of my favourites)

Ano : "Man created God in his image : intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent."

Mark Twain : "The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also ".

Benjamin Franklin :"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason ".

Arthur C. Clarke : "I would defend the liberty of consenting 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 ".

You keep believing, I'll keep evolving ( bumper sticker)

Gustaf Lindborg :" The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail ".

Anon : "People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs ".

Terry Pratchett : " The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it".

Justin Brown : "An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished".



Francis Bacon:
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men".



Jane Wagner:
"One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist".



Quentin Crisp:
"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?"

[Marodi]

Originally Posted by Mooseketeer

Stephen Roberts :

"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 ".

oooh... I like this one.

[MaggieZ]

I think most of them are very good. I had never seen so many of these atheist quotes in one place, usually you read one here or there by accident. But then I don't think about atheism a lot anyway.
That's very true, "when you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours".

[happynoodleboycey]

Here are a few from Richard Dawkins, a man I admire greatly for his courage to speak out about what he believes rather than what people want him to say:

- "The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."

- "...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong."

- "If you are religious at all it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false, knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan, you are the victim of childhood indoctrination."

- "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."

- "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

- "Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?"

- "I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."

And my personal favourite:

- "There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?"