Salman Rushdie Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?

  Salman Rushdie

  Issues, Blood, World Religions

  "Religion, as ever, is the poison in India's blood" by Salman Rushdie, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2002.

• God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.

  Salman Rushdie

  Years, Religion, Atheism

  "In God We Trust". Essay by Salman Rushdie, 1985.

• If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

  Salman Rushdie

  Atheism, Woody, Positive Atheism

  Independent, February 18, 1989.

• We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pride, Sacrifice, Men

• Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Atheism, Society

• If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

  Salman Rushdie

  Order, Voice, Islam

  "Moderate Muslims must roar, says Rushdie". www.cnn.com. November 3, 2001.

• If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

  Salman Rushdie

  Atheist, Atheism, Chance

• I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Religion, Atheism

  "Who is Salman Rushdie?" by Firas Al-Atraqchi, www.mediamonitors.net. November 23, 2001.

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