Quotes on Atheist

Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learned what happened, I renounced the Lord. I withdrew my church membership and became an atheist. I decided I couldn't believe in a God who would let something that terrible happen to a boy like Alex.

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

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

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

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

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.