All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

I'm an atheist. I don't believe in the afterlife, but I do believe in ghosts.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

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