Atheist Quote by Marcus Brigstocke

“I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.”

Marcus Brigstocke

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I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.

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Jews, I know you're God's chosen people and the rest of us are just 'whatever', but when Israel behaves like a violent, psychopathic bully…

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All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things…

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“If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”

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“We humans who art on Earth Humanity is special Our kingdom has come Do what we innately know to be right On earth, because that's all there is Share the bread we have Try not to screw up When others screw up, understand We can't have everything that tempts us Deliver ourselves from evil Because this is it, the Earth,…

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I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

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I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood,…

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I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful…

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“I'd like to start this week with a request, and this one goes out to the followers of the three Abrahamic religions: the Muslims, Christians, and Jews. It's just a little thing, really, but do you think that when you've finished smashing up the world and blowing each other to bits and demanding special privileges while you do it, do…

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Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic…

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I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so large by…

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There are a lot of comics at the top end making staggering amounts of money and selling out stadiums. I think stand-up is a…

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“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They…

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I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

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Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither…

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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.

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If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

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I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.

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