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| 3 1. "Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money." - George Carlin |
| 3 2. "The most heinous and the must cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives." - Ghandi |
| 2 3. "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 |
| 2 4. "It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image." - Ludwig Feuerbach |
| 2 5. Atheism: A non-prophet organization. |
| 2 6. "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Ghandi |
| 2 7. "It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." - Mark Twain |
| 1 8. "And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence." - Bertrand Russell |
| 1 9. "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish." |
| 1 10. "I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." - George Carlin |
| 1 11. "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." - Albert Einstein |
| 1 12. "Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." - Mark Twain |
| 1 13. "Lighthouses are more helpful then churches." - Benjamin Franklin |
| 1 14. "If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor." - Voltaire |
| 1 15. "Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities." - Voltaire |
| 1 16. "Black holes would seem to suggest that God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen." - Stephen Hawking |
| 1 17. "You're basically killing each other to see who’s got the better imaginary friend." - Richard Jeni |
| 1 18. "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." - Isaac Asimov |
| 1 19. "A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition." - José Bergamín |
| 1 20. An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanquished, war eliminated. He wants man to understand and love man. |
| 0 21. "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Steven Roberts |
| 0 22. "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." |
| 0 23. "We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." - Gene Roddenberry |
| 0 24. "Without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg |
| 0 25. "Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer." |
| 0 26. "Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child." - Robert A. Heinlein |
| 0 27. "I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology." - Thomas Jefferson |
| 0 28. "Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?" - Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 0 29. "Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people." - Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney |
| 0 30. "Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one." - Richard Dawkins |
| 0 31. "The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion." - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States |
| 0 32. "You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate." - Richard A. Weatherwax |
| 0 33. "They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing." - Steven Weinberg |
| 0 34. "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." - Albert Einstein |
| 0 35. "A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows." -
Mark Twain |
| 0 36. "We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There’s not much personal about the laws of physics." - Stephen Hawking |
| 0 37. "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires." - Sigmund Freud |
| 0 38. "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx |
| 0 39. "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." - Delos B. McKown |
| 0 40. "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw |
| 0 41. "Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions." - Blaise Pascal |
| 0 42. "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." - Steven Weinberg |
| 0 43. "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Edward Gibbon |
| 0 44. "The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see." - Huang Po |
| 0 45. "Where knowledge ends, religion begins." - Benjamin Disraeli |
| 0 46. "The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not." - Eric Hoffer |
| 0 47. "I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder." - Bill Maher |
| 0 48. "There’s a phrase we live by in America: 'In God We Trust'. It’s right there where Jesus would want it: on our money." |
| 0 49. "If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them." - Baron D’Holbach |
| 0 50. "One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion." - Arthur C. Clarke |
| 0 51. "Society will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"- Diderot |
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