After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.
(n.) The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.
(n.) Godlessness.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because...
I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.
Prior to Flew, major apologies for atheism were those of Enlightenment thinkers (David Hume, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Friedrich Nietzsche).Major philosophers of Flew’s generation who...
People thank God when God no longer sits on the throne. The angels descend down to deliver miracles because they are trying to maintain the face of God. In the end, you must place your hopes and praye...
God endlessly fails to extend his blessings. That is because he no longer sits on the throne.
One day when I was praying, it suddenly occurred to me thatI was talking to myself.
Every morning I wake up and thank God that I don't believe in him.
I am scared of the day, when they turn atheism into another religion for controlling masses.
I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.
The trouble when people stop believing in God is not that they thereafter believe in nothing; it is that they thereafter believe in anything. In this century, 'anything' has included Hitler, Stalin an...
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who clai...
Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessl...
The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith.
The fool hath said in his heart There is no God.
I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice.
Just because Jimmy Swaggart believes in God doesn't mean that God does not exist.
I was hated, you know. I made no secret of the fact that I was an atheist. People told me there are no atheists in fox holes. That's nonsense. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)]