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- Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living…
- It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.
- I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way…
- Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also…
- Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
- If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
- I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
- Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
- The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo…
- Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.
- Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.
- Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
- I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the…
- Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?
- Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps…
- We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
- There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so…
- If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves…
- The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak;…
- There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by…
- Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
- Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that…
- So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak…
- Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that…
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
- Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of… — Douglas Adams
- Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,… — John Adams
- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. — Joseph Addison
- No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
- Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
- I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me… — Jack Black
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family… — Tony Blair