I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.
I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.
To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge
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?
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family.
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Man created God in his own image.
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