Atheism Quote by Peter Medawar

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

— Anonymous

The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by…

— Sam Harris

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

— Jonathan Swift

A religion must be instrumental in spiritualising the individual into a boundless and holistic nature.

— Lobsang Tenzin

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

— Christopher Morley

Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in…

— Sigmund Freud

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of…

— John Dewey

“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ― a…

— Sam Harris

To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such…

— Alvin Plantinga

A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is…

— Mircea Eliade

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

— E. O. Wilson

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying…

— Richard Dawkins