Michael Shermer Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.

  Michael Shermer

  Funny, God, Atheist

• The evening was very professionally organized, and most of the people were exceptionally polite, although it did make me a little nervous when one church official told me after the debate when a big crowd of people surrounded me that he had assigned me a body guard "just in case." Just in case what? I thought Christians were suppose to be exceptionally tolerant. Well, in any case, I guess I was grateful for the gesture, "just in case."

  Michael Shermer

  Christian, Grateful, People

• So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.

  Michael Shermer

  Atheism, Praise, Lord

• Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of a hoped-for hereafter, and make every day count in some meaningful way and do something-no matter how small it is-to make the world a better place.

  Michael Shermer

  Meaningful, Atheist, Live Life

• Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

  Michael Shermer

  Past, Rejection, Religion

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.145, Holt Paperbacks

• Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

  Michael Shermer

  Emotional, Religion, Atheism

• The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

  Michael Shermer

  Ideas, Design, Brain

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