Atheist Quotes
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.
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.
Just because you`re an atheist, that doesn`t mean you wouldn`t love for things to have reasons for why they are.
I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don`t have as many people who believe it.
Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. Acceptance of the supernatural conveyed a great advantage throughout prehistory, when the brain was evolving. Thus it is in sharp contrast to biology, which was developed as a product of the modern age and is not underwritten by genetic algorithms. The uncomfortable truth is that the two beliefs are not factually compatible. As a result those who hunger for both intellectual and religious truth will never acquire both in full measure.
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.