Atheism Quotes

1894 Atheism quotes by 757 unique authors

I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the… — Billy Graham
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The God of hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A god who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved; cursed, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Too much doubt is better than too much credulity. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book. — Robert Green Ingersoll
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring. — Robert Green Ingersoll
All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied… — A A Milne
I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree… — Andrew Jackson
Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! — Pope Benedict XVI
We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. — George W. Bush
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When… — Bill Moyers
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible. — John Shelby Spong
The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity. — John Shelby Spong
The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and… — John Shelby Spong

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