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Atheism is very stupid. -- Carl Sagan
Atheism is too theological. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheism is a non-prophet organization. -- George Carlin
Atheism thrives on bad religion. -- Os Guinness
I believe BECAUSE it's impossible. -- Tertullian
Atheism is spreading like wildfire. -- Ray Comfort
Atheism - Your Gain, No Pain! -- Ron Barrier
Atheism is easy in fair weather. -- Ronald Dunn
A mere society form of Atheism. -- Charles Bradlaugh
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. -- Benjamin Franklin
Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt. -- Ravi Zacharias
Atheism has no room for human rights. -- Richard Halverson
Atheism is the last word of theism. -- Heinrich Heine
Atheism is the last word of theism -- Heinrich Heine
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness. -- Madame de Stael
Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people. -- Voltaire
Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism. -- Vladimir Lenin
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life... -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. -- Thomas Jefferson
Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots. -- Vanna Bonta
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. -- Charles Bradlaugh
If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease! -- Clark Adams
Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people. -- Dave Hunt
Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority. -- Stephen Colbert
Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. -- Thomas Jefferson
Atheism in not simply beyond reason, it is contrary to reason. -- Dave Hunt
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. -- Blaise Pascal
Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position. -- Richard Dawkins
Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby. -- Penn Jillette
Atheism is a religion the way abstinence is a sex position. -- Bill Maher
Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light -- John Lennox
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations. -- Sam Harris
Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man. -- Francis Bacon
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism... -- Daniel Dennett
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. -- Blaise Pascal
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. -- Bill Gaede
Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. -- Isaac Newton
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice. -- Charles Spurgeon
Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God. -- Tom Stoppard
Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority. -- Stephen Colbert
It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. -- Mary Astell
Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history. -- Chapman Cohen
Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution. -- Robert Collyer
Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding. -- Plato
Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence -- George Holyoake
Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence. -- George Holyoake
Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart. -- Dillon Burroughs
Atheism is the only world-view or religious view that is not tolerated within the SS. -- Heinrich Himmler
Atheism is a belief system", is like saying "not going skiing, is a hobby. -- Ricky Gervais
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. -- Ruth Hurmence Green
Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. -- Sam Harris
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory. -- Andre Gide
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself. -- Henry David Thoreau
From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. -- Albert Einstein
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. -- Richard Burton
Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake...Religion is all bunk. -- Thomas A. Edison
Atheism tells him what he isn't, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is. -- Eric Metaxas
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. -- Denis Diderot
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream. -- Kevin Smith
Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything. -- Rose Macaulay
Atheism is the absence of religion. We don't really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion. -- Penn Jillette
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. -- Thomas Jefferson
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. -- Annie Besant
Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth. -- Peter Kreeft
Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.' -- Kirk Cameron
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. -- Maximilien Robespierre
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? -- Woody Allen
Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason. -- Fulton J. Sheen
No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism. -- Harold Laski
Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature. -- E. Haldeman-Julius
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? -- Mark Twain
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning... -- C. S. Lewis
If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded -- Charles Hodge
Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. -- Vladimir Lenin
Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he? -- Stephen Fry
Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human. -- Andre Comte-Sponville
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance. -- Harun Yahya
The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond. -- Emma Goldman
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power. -- Emma Goldman
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue. -- Francis Bacon
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. -- C. S. Lewis
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation. -- Norman Douglas
Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty. -- Emma Goldman
Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god. -- Thomas Jefferson
Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more. -- Ricky Gervais
I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It's a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you'll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism. -- John Lydon
Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God. -- Stephen Fry
Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain. -- Alister E. McGrath
Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern. -- E. Haldeman-Julius
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. -- Thomas Paine
The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism, Mormonism, Christian Science, or Atheism. -- Theodore Schroeder
Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims. -- George H. Smith
Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts. -- Peter Kreeft
Atheism is not a religion. One of the things, in fact, that atheism lacks are the kinds of rituals that religion does provide and I would be the first to say that. -- Susan Jacoby
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God. -- John Donne
Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property. -- Jeremy Collier
What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked? -- Rowan Atkinson
I don't mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn't tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better. -- Greg Graffin
Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing. -- Penn Jillette
Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists. -- David Silverman
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. -- Isaac Newton
Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism isâ?¦ precisely not that. Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position -- Bill Maher
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle. -- Sam Harris
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God." Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ. -- Seraphim Rose
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?'' -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. -- Richard Dawkins
Atheism has become a major threat to the church. New Atheists tend to be articulate and belligerent. They are aggressively engaging in "atheist evangelism," determined to stamp out every vestige of belief in God, which they insist is not only "stupid" but "wicked." -- Dave Hunt
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery. -- Bede Griffiths
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. -- Thomas Paine
Science is knowledge meeting humility meeting curiosity: ever-evolving, always learning. Atheism is often but knowledge meeting arrogance: a masquerade under the wing of the beauty of science. Religion is infamously a weight under the one wing; then under the other is atheism, the championed masquerade. -- Criss Jami
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -- Epicurus

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