Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.
Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.
The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.
The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening.
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
The more evolutionary theory gets called an atheistic theory, the greater the risk that it will lose its place in public school biology courses in the United States. If the theory is thought of in this way, one should not be surprised if a judge at some point decides that teaching evolutionary theory violates the Constitutional principle of neutrality with respect to religion.
Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.
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