God prefers kind atheists over hateful Christians.

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying…

— Noam Chomsky

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

— Ricky Gervais

I am like all other atheists only in that I do not believe there are any gods. Beyond that, I may differ dramatically in…

— Richard Carrier

We're not mad at God, just like atheists don't hate Santa or Unicorns, they're just not there!

— Hemant Mehta

“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…

— Emma Goldman

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

— Christopher Hitchens

“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said…

— John Irving

Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of…

— Robert Barron

The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups

— Clark Coleman

“the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods…

— Terry Pratchett

“They hate us because we are atheists and we feel sorry for them because they are religious.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

— Richard Dawkins

After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an…

— Chuck Close