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Title: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: existentialcrisis on December 13, 2016, 04:12:04 PM
Hey guys, what are your favorite atheist quotes? Here are some of mine:



Faith: not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? - Friedrich Nietzsche

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. - Jules Renard

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason - Benjamin Franklin

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
― Epicurus

Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church - Anonymous

Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: Arturo on December 13, 2016, 05:10:34 PM
I was going to put the Epicurus one but you beat me to it.
Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: No one on December 13, 2016, 08:41:58 PM
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fforums.motortrend.com%2F_siteconfigs%2F_global%2Fimages%2Fcommunity%2Fbbcode%2Ficon_quote.gif&hash=7e397439145e530551380cd19bacaedf98bb1cd5) Ambrose Bierce:
"Faith (n) Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: Skeptik on January 30, 2017, 06:21:12 AM
If it can be asserted without evidence, it can be dismissed without evidence.  - Hitch
Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: Icarus on February 07, 2017, 01:21:18 AM
" A mans ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.: Albert Einstein
Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: Arturo on February 07, 2017, 04:56:04 AM
"What is your justification for the scientific method?"

"Well, it works..."
Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: Icarus on February 08, 2017, 06:20:43 AM
The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work: George Bernard Shaw.
Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: Icarus on March 14, 2017, 11:16:52 PM
"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think that they have found it."  :Terry Pratchett

"so far as I can remember, there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence" : Bertrand Russell

"Faith does not give you answers, it just stops you asking questions" : Frater Ravus


"There is so much in the bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much so that I regret the necessity which has compelled me read it through from beginning to end, I do not think that the knowledge that I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced on my attention" : Helen Keller

These little gems lifted from  Darrel Rays book, The God Virus
Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: Icarus on March 26, 2017, 02:07:52 AM
C'mon you guys. You must have some pet quotes. You want me to do all the damned research?

Here is another....... not necessarily religious but can be applied that way..

...Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one: Voltaire
Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: Guardian85 on March 26, 2017, 04:36:56 AM
"It is more useful to build lighthouses than churches."     :Benjamin Franklin


"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."      :James Madison


"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty."     :Thomas Jeffeson
Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: Arturo on April 14, 2017, 01:46:58 AM
"Forget Jesus, stars died so you could be here today" Lawrence Krauss
Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: Davin on April 14, 2017, 02:33:14 PM
One of my favorites.

Quote from: Christopher HitchensThat which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: Icarus on April 15, 2017, 11:34:07 PM
"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis": Sigmund Freud

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. ; Steven Weinberg

Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: hermes2015 on April 16, 2017, 06:29:52 AM
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." - H.L. Mencken

"When you understand why you don't believe in other people's gods, you will understand why I don't believe in yours."- Albert Einstein
Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: Arturo on April 16, 2017, 06:35:00 AM
Quote from: hermes2015 on April 16, 2017, 06:29:52 AM
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." - H.L. Mencken

I like that one.
Title: Re: Your favorite atheist quotes!
Post by: Arturo on April 21, 2017, 04:47:19 PM
QuoteEverything within the capacity of human understanding contains a degree of error. And everything men know to be true is only true to a degree. Everyone is inevitably wrong about something, somewhere. We don't know everything about everything, we don't know everything about anything. And what we do know, we don't know accuratly on all points, nor completely in every detail. Honest men admit this.
- Aron Ra

I like this because it gives me a sense of inclusion to the world and people around me that I've been desperately missing and not knowing that I'm missing it until I heard this. I feel better now  :clapping: