Quotes on Atheism

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Men create the gods after their own images.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.

The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle of hatred, it can never be used in God's name to justify violence.

From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.

Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.