Atheism Quotes and Sayings
All thinking people tend to agree more with atheism than theism, even though they may not be anti- religion.
Atheists are more knowledgeable about religion than religious believers, even though they are opposed to God- – based religion- – and many of them were previously religious.
Atheists and secular people are more liberal and less prejudiced and dogmatic, whereas theists and religious people are more conservative and less rational and tolerant.
Atheists do not accept metaphors and super naturalism as facts, but theists see metaphors and super naturalism as facts.
Atheism is rooted in science and reason, and atheists distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. (85% of the members of America’s national academy of science reject God.)
The criticism that atheists are less moral and honest has been disproved by study after study. Atheists believe that morality is man- made, and follow their moral ideas which are more or less compatible with those of religious believers.
Atheists are people who think for themselves and defenders of reason, and their conviction that God does not exist is making a significant contribution to the development of thinking, rational and open- minded people.
Atheism is the enemy of God- based religion(s), but is accepted in some spiritual beliefs such as Hinduism and Buddhism.
Even though God- based religion is increasingly losing its believers in western countries, it is still a social disadvantage to be atheistic in public.
With the rise of science and knowledge, religious belief is increasingly losing its believers, and facing the challenges of atheism, agnosticism and non- believers.
Atheism, agnosticism and free thinkers are the products of rational thinking, skeptical inquiry and critical analysis, which severely put religious belief on the defensive.
Religious belief is increasingly losing its attraction in the minds of the average people. The further decline of religion in the western world seems unavoidable. France is the most atheistic nation (32%), followed by Germany(20%), great Britain and the United States (13%). In 2010.
Atheism is against God- based religion which is illusive, mysterious and dogmatic, and which has convinced people to believe in something that is imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable.
The strength of religion lies in its moral doctrines that are compatible with the instinctive feelings of the human heart. Believers or non- believers are all blessed with this kind of human feelings – a part of human nature.
Atheism is not anti- God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers.
The agnostic who doubts the existence of god, and the free thinker who feels that the existence of God is unnecessary and not justified, constitute a majority of non- believers.
The controversy between theism and atheism will continue forever, but the world will be ruled by non- believers at last.
What we atheists have to do is to
Incorporate atheism as a religion
And see whether the government
Sues the theists under blasphemy
For insulting atheism.
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
- Woody Allen
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
— Samuel Clemens
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
— Denis Diderot
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
- Benjamin Franklin
I don’t believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
— Andrew Carnegie
Creationists make it sound like a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night
— Isaac Asimov
Atheism is the last word of theism.
- Heinrich Heine
My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
- Richard Dawkins
Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
- Vladimir Lenin
If God was real, he would have stopped the oil spill, the school shootouts, world hunger, and racism.
Since he created all, didn’t he? He is supposed to be good, and nice? What if he is weak, or cruel?
Or. Maybe he doesn’t exist!!
It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn’t afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.
- George Carlin
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
- C.S. Lewis
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
- C.S. Lewis
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
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
- Voltaire