Atheism Quote by P.W. Atkins Download Open image ““[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.”” — P.W. Atkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Atheist Evil Fantasy Happiness Religion
“I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Again, what works well in the spiritual domain can become destructive and even immoral if interpreted literally and practically in the mundane world. It” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Religion is nothing more than bad concepts held in place of good ones for all time. It is denial - at once full of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“All religions (..) they create false divisions, and enslave us to fantasies, when we need to focus on the here and now.” — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
“We are no longer so lacking in fantasy as to uphold the existence of a god.” — Carl Einstein Copy Share Image
“Religion without reason is merely an illusion of religion – it is a mockery of religion, like it has become today.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
“All religion is supernatural, and rests upon the presupposition that God is distinct from the world and yet works in the world.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned. It is a vacuous answer... To say that 'God made the world' is simply a more or less sophisticated way of saying that we don't understand… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share
“Theologians could not even agree about the nature of their gods. These personages ranged from "blue touch-paper gods" who started everything and never interfered… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a… — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image