Atheism Quotes · Page 79

I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

— William A. Dembski

The utter folly of our time is lamentable, that men should think to assist God with human help and to protect the…

— Hilary of Poitiers

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

— John Stuart Mill

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

— Lord Kelvin

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions.

— Mark Thomas

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

— Kevin Smith

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the…

— Voltaire

“It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that…

— Alain de Boton

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss…

— Rob Bell

I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client…

— Geoffrey Fieger

We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living…

— Salman Rushdie

Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the…

— Vladimir Lenin

There is something very peculiar about this form of atheism: It tries to constantly remind us of God while maintaining He does…

— Gerard Verschuuren

I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause,…

— Emily Dickinson

“Upon the shadowy shore of death the sea of trouble casts no wave. Eyes that have been curtained by the everlasting dark,…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they…

— Anonymous

“Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates.…

— Frank R. Zindler

Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is…

— Rajneesh

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of…

— Isaac Asimov

And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian…

— Luther Burbank

While Jesus was at Jerusalem there came a voice from heaven. For what purpose was the voice sent? For the sake of…

— John Remsburg

“For the first time (but how long will it take us to acknowledge this?) in the history of ideas, a philosopher had…

— Michel Onfray

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

— Nick Matzke

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after…

— Francis Crick

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

— Martin Buber

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

— Christopher Hitchens

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

— Emma Goldman

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will…

— Carl Sagan

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

— Mark Twain

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the…

— H. J Eckenrode

Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

— Daniel Dennett

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge…

— Bill Gates

[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their…

— Anne Royall

The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering…

— Richard Carrier

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

— Baron d'Holbach

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made…

— John Stuart Mill

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

— Abraham Lincoln