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Atheism Quotes by Mark Twain
- When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.
- To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
- In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple,…
- Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to…
- Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.
- Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon…
- Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
- But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our…
- Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.
- There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an…
- But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
- It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
- Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
- I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest…
- The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
- Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
- I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
- If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
More Atheism Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
- Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
- I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is… — Francis Bacon
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,… — Francis Bacon
- You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. — Tammy Faye Bakker