Top 50 atheism quotes

[cncracer]

"To the questions 'What is Good?'…the answer can only be: 'The considered life - free, creative, informed and chosen, a life of achievement and fulfillment, or pleasure and understanding, of love and friendship; in short, the best human life is a human world, humanely lived." AC Grayling

[sharpie1234]

Originally Posted by cncracer

"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for something." African Proverb

i think that's actually:
"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for Anything."

[Asheville Native]

"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."
-- Voltaire

[cncracer]

"When science was in its infancy, religion tried to strangle it in its cradle." - Robert G. Ingersoll

[Tantalust]

H. L. Mencken had some good ones:

• "Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration -- courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth."

• "Archbishop: A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ."

• "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

• "The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh."

H. L. Mencken Quotations

[InsaneInDaMembrane]

"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

[InsaneInDaMembrane]

"Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with a creed, like a club, in his hand. He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment."
— Robert G. Ingersoll