Quotations †<

""If god has spoken, why is the world not convinced?"

"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."
-- Stephen Roberts

"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color."
--Don Hirschberg

"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
-- John Buchan

"Men never commit evil so fully and joyfuly as when they do it for religious convictions"
-- Blaise Pascal

"All thinking men are atheists."
-- Ernest Hemingway

"The only true immortality lies in one's children."
-- Johannes Brahms, composer - 1833-1897.

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"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

"Away with these Atheists!"
-- Colosseum crowd chant, ancient Rome, prior to throwing Christians to the lions.

"One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist."
- Francis Crick

"The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!"
-- George Carlin

"I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No,' said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?' "
-- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974

"... I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work."
- Hitler

"The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished."
--Muslim religious edict, 1993, Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz, Supreme religious authority, Saudi Arabia

"There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the dark ages."
-- Ruth Hermence Green

"Ah yes, Mohammed - that's one of the most common Christian names in the world."
-- Kid Jensen (British TV/Radio presenter)

"ISLAM IS PEACE"
-- G.W.Bush - 17th September 2001

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
-- Douglas Adams

Atheist   n   A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others.
-- Chaz Bufe, The American Heretic’s Dictionary

"Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?"
-- Arthur C. Clarke

"The Romans killed Jesus on the cross. His death on the cross saved us from our sins. Therefore, we should worship the Romans."
-- Earle Jones - in alt.atheism.satire

"Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies, each with two hundred billion stars, then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?"
-- Ron Patterson

 

- Duncan Rossiter