I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate…Try science. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why. — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings. — Roy Hattersley Copy Share Image
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
"Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since… — Jim Herrick Copy Share Image
I may be an atheist, but am not against religion because atheist's have nothing to replace the structure of church charity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply… — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
One great way to mess with devout Christians and atheists would be if Jesus came back and said, By the way, you… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of… — Armand Salacrou Copy Share Image
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Religion is a universal security blanket for a lot of people, especially children. It gives them a sense of security, albeit, I… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
“All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“Mama, you don’t understand. It’s all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don’t acept. It’s not important.… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently,… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
![“All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die, too. As I thought more about it in the bleak days and weeks that followed, I decided the Bible had gotten it exactly backward. Maybe God hadn't…” quote by Bill Bass](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a50/bill-bass-77319_atheism_all-my-life-i-d-been-a-believing-christi_222687.jpg)
