An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist,….
Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to k….
Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them..
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?.
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape..
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can mak….
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind ….
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is….
Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your li….
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to….
In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the be….
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him..
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man made a….
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so..
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose..
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing..
People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free..
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic….
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill….
…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how ….
We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He….