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  • Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1882). “Wit, Wisdom, Eloquence, and Great Speeches of Col. R. G. Ingersoll: Including Eloquent Extracts, Witty, Wise, Pungent, Truthful Sayings and Full Reports of the Great Speeches of this Celebrated Man, Together with the Funeral Oration at His Brother's Grave”
  • The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and unimportant factor in human affairs.

  • Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

    Sweet   Atheist   Crazy  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.160, Dial Press
  • The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

  • In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in our society. We have been relegated to a cultural backwater, where we are meant to paddle around content in the knowledge that we are merely allowed to exist.

  • Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

  • Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

    "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.
  • I don't know anyone less Jesus like than Christians.

  • 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.

    Sympathy   God   Death  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books
  • An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

    Quoted in Harry E. Fosdick, On Being a Real Person (1943)
  • Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

  • Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

    Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books
  • 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.

    George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult
  • It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

    God   Atheist   Fear  
    "Sir Arthur’s Quotations", www.clarkefoundation.org.
  • Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

    Atheist   Pain   Self  
    Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.152, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more consideration than non-religious beliefs or anti-religious ones. I never agree with that foolish statement that I ought to respect the views of others when I believe them to be wrong.

    Religious   Believe   Men  
    "Atheist Acrimonious" by David M. Mandell, Vervante, (p. 176), 2008.
  • Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or anti-religious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest.

    Religious   Men   Class  
    Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris
  • I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

    Atheist   Pain   Fear  
    Thomas Paine (1819). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.4
  • Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

  • Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

  • The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.

  • The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?

  • There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

    Song: Heavenly Bank Account
  • Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

  • The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

  • God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

  • The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

  • This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

    John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”
  • Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

  • If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.

    T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.396, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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