Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience? — Julia Sweeney Copy Share Image
Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The only thing wrong with being an atheist is that there's nobody to talk to during an orgasm. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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 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
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
“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
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
Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
“By the very notion that God does not exist an atheist embodies the idea of a supreme being by pondering the very… — Tom Hamilton Copy Share Image
Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It's fantastic to believe, because they get so many benefits. I get mad at the atheist community when they put down believers… — Julia Sweeney Copy Share Image
His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“a deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Most Christians are afraid that people will think for themselves; most atheists are afraid that they won’t. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.” — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“There is only one God and all atheists will learn that after their deaths” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The incentive for a religious person turning into an atheist is to have a better and happier life” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image