Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking cou...
I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a God. It's kind of defending the indefensible, though; I'm critical of what religions are becom...
(n.) The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.
(n.) Godlessness.
The reason I could never be an atheist is because when they get together they have literally nothing to talk about.
Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't...
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on to fury; if he has activity, it makes him a madman, who is fr...
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line....
If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserv...
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it was going to be a tough job finding it experimentally...
I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief that the Koran was dictated, though exclusively in Arabic, to an illite...
Last-Minute Message For a Time CapsuleI have to tell you this, whoever you are:that on one summer morning here, the oceanpounded in on tumbledown breakers,a south wind, bustling along the shore,whippe...
Speaking to a 'non-theist', 'How do you what you don't believe in if you have never read the Bible?'".
With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.
Years ago atheism was an individual phenomenon; today atheism is social, the atheist who once was a curiosity, is now a component part of some of the governments of the world. Once men quarreled becau...
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