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A selection of famous atheists and quotes from them.
"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."
Abraham Lincoln, American president (1809-1865).
"You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough."
Aldous Huxley, author "Brave new World"
"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 religion than it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism."
"I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist
Another collection of Einsten quotes on this separate page.
"I don't believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life."
Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist
"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night"
Isaac Asimov, Russian-born - American author
"All thinking men are atheists."
On page 144 of Paul Johnson's book Intellectuals, it states that despite being raised in a strict Congregationalist household, Ernest "did not only not believe in God but regarded organized religion as a menace to human happiness", "seems to have been devoid of the religious spirit", and "ceased to practise religion at the earliest possible moment."
Other's have pointed out that Hemingway used the non-existence of God as a theme in his books.
Ernest Hemingway, American author (1899-1961).
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him."
"Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?"
Arthur C. Clarke, author
From the age of forty he was, to use his own words, a complete dis-believer in Christianity. He professed himself an Agnostic, regarding the problem of the universe as beyond our solution, "For myself," he wrote, "I do not believe in any revelation. As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities."
"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us, and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
"It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science." [Quoted in How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science by Michael Shermer.
Charles Robert Darwin, English naturalist (1809-1882).
"Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge. "
Ayn Rand, Russian-born author (1905-1982).
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absented myself from Christian assemblies."
"Lighthouses are more helpful then churches."
Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father, author, and inventor
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."
"So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is truth?"
"The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, a self-derision, and self-mutilation."
"All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications."
"The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God."
"There is no devil and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body: fear therefore nothing any more."
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist and philosopher (1844-1900).
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile."
Kurt Vonnegut, American author
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
All religions have been made by men."
Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor
"No Gods, No Masters."
"Religion is all bunk."
"I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living … our dread of coming to an end."
Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847-1931).
"When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
Oscar Wilde - Author
Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the priesthood as I know it.
Christopher Hitchens - Author
A selection of famous atheists and quotes from them.
"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."
Abraham Lincoln, American president (1809-1865).
"You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough."
Aldous Huxley, author "Brave new World"
"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 religion than it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism."
"I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist
Another collection of Einsten quotes on this separate page.
"I don't believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life."
Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist
"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night"
Isaac Asimov, Russian-born - American author
"All thinking men are atheists."
On page 144 of Paul Johnson's book Intellectuals, it states that despite being raised in a strict Congregationalist household, Ernest "did not only not believe in God but regarded organized religion as a menace to human happiness", "seems to have been devoid of the religious spirit", and "ceased to practise religion at the earliest possible moment."
Other's have pointed out that Hemingway used the non-existence of God as a theme in his books.
Ernest Hemingway, American author (1899-1961).
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him."
"Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?"
Arthur C. Clarke, author
From the age of forty he was, to use his own words, a complete dis-believer in Christianity. He professed himself an Agnostic, regarding the problem of the universe as beyond our solution, "For myself," he wrote, "I do not believe in any revelation. As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities."
"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us, and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
"It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science." [Quoted in How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science by Michael Shermer.
Charles Robert Darwin, English naturalist (1809-1882).
"Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge. "
Ayn Rand, Russian-born author (1905-1982).
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absented myself from Christian assemblies."
"Lighthouses are more helpful then churches."
Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father, author, and inventor
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."
"So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is truth?"
"The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, a self-derision, and self-mutilation."
"All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications."
"The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God."
"There is no devil and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body: fear therefore nothing any more."
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist and philosopher (1844-1900).
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile."
Kurt Vonnegut, American author
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
All religions have been made by men."
Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor
"No Gods, No Masters."
"Religion is all bunk."
"I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living … our dread of coming to an end."
Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847-1931).
"When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
Oscar Wilde - Author
Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the priesthood as I know it.
Christopher Hitchens - Author
too bad people are still so mired in ignorance and wishful thinking of a heaven..............................
as the Buddha said......................
'' in truth, there are no Buddhas.................and no teachings....................''
as the Buddha said......................
'' in truth, there are no Buddhas.................and no teachings....................''
this one very useful against christians..
"For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written." - Romans 2:24
"For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written." - Romans 2:24
LondonChatterBox
New Member
I like this one a lot. And it's so true.
renlinencloth
New Member
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
Religion has actually 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 special list of ten things he does not want you to do.. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ..But He loves you.
Religion has actually 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 special list of ten things he does not want you to do.. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ..But He loves you.
that is from the late George Callin. i enjoyed his show.
here's some more quotes;
to argue with a person who has rennounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. - Thomas Paine.
those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire
when i got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self.
i had faith that im capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that i have only one life, here and now, and i'm responsible. - Bradd Pitt.
Hi gentlemen, looking at all these quotes in isolation i would agree with you on their logic and validity. But i have to look at it from my big picture point of view.
No matter how we try we can never reason out the mind of God. He does things which are beyond our understanding using our human logic.
If we understand God then He wouldnt be God.
So i cant argue all these guys' quotes because they are greater thinkers than i am, but in my heart i believe God's thoughts and ways are far greater than theirs and I will ' go with God '
No matter how we try we can never reason out the mind of God. He does things which are beyond our understanding using our human logic.
If we understand God then He wouldnt be God.
So i cant argue all these guys' quotes because they are greater thinkers than i am, but in my heart i believe God's thoughts and ways are far greater than theirs and I will ' go with God '
that is ancient supersition. we should also give equal weights to sayings like; "go with zeus." or "may odin bless you."
zeus, odin, jupiter are also beyond human comprehension, time and space too. they are too smart for us to see, touch, feel. we can only feel their spirit presence and based on Marvel comic for guidance and revelation. Stan Lee is the prophet chosen by Odin to guide us thru' the character of Thor.
they dont need our worship, it is we that need them.
see the irony?
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