Atheist Quote by Arnulf Øverland

“Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti turned their backs on the old religion and introduced the worship of Aten. Historians believe that it was they…

— Adam Brown

“here is something that is impossible for anyone to believe. The human species has been in existence as Homo sapiens for (let us not…

— Christopher Hitchens

“To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before the Jews…

— John E. Remsburg

One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by…

— Richard Rohr

Why is monotheistic faith better than polytheistic? I mean, either you believe - if you believe in, like, a magic person who can do…

— Bill Maher

“You see, the foundations of our culture were laid in classical Greece, where physical beauty and the body were celebrated. But our culture is…

— Ted Chiang

“Monotheism generally allows for no greys. Ideas are either true or false. Hence, although science develops out of the alchemy of the medieval Christian…

— Jordan D. Paper

“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and…

— Philip Pullman

“In the monotheistic age, God was viewed as the one who causes and does everything, and hence humans were not entitled to make something,…

— Peter Sloterdijk

Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a…

— Raymond Geuss

Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I think it's the tendency to want to create gods and monotheistic absolutes and absolute certainties that is the continual temptation in human thought…

— Tony Harrison