Who's your favorite atheist?

[rlrose328]

I'm quite fond of Penn Jillette.  He says the "F" word a lot, gives us plenty of frontal nudity upon which to gaze, and we see eye-to-eye on a number of subjects.

I also like Neil Peart... his words speak to me via Geddy Lee and I shiver.  

I could read Robert Green Ingersoll all day long and never get bored.  I do like to read George Carlin, but after a dozen pages or so, I need to take a break.  

[Asmodean]

*Casts a meaningful glance at the member status below the avatar*  

[Kyuuketsuki]

Dawkins has to be my favourite ...
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."

"I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading."

"If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place. Epidemiology, not evidence."

... though I really liked the late Dr. Asimov.
"Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly"

I also like Sam Harris, ...
"Jesus Christ -- who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death and rose bodily into the heavens -- can now be eaten in the form of a cracker. A few Latin words spoken over your favourite Burgundy, and you can drink his blood as well. Is there any doubt that a lone subscriber to these beliefs would be considered mad?"

... Daniel Dennett, ...
"The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that God is, like Santa Claus, a myth of childhood, not anything a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in."

... Steven Weinberg, ...
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion."

... and E.T. Babinski, ...
"Only a Designer would have had the infinite wisdom and compassion to create a chacma baboon like the one that was seen catching a pigeon, plucking out its feathers, letting it go, recapturing it, pulling out its legs, and then decapitating it."

Kyu

[Will]

Mark Twain is probably my favorite atheist because of his colorful take on life. I really wish I could have met him.

Oh, and the atheists around here are good people, too.

[Godless]

My favorite is Pat Condell hands down... If you've seen his YouTube videos you'll see why.

[Wechtlein Uns]

Steven Badrich

[Kylyssa]

Right now it would have to be Ricky Gervais.  However, it's subject to change frequently.

[karadan]

George Clooney is my fave Atheist. He rocks on so many levels and i'm not even gay!

[oldschooldoc]

George Clooney is my fave Atheist. He rocks on so many levels and i'm not even gay!

I just read about that old interview where Clooney stated he doesn't believe. Awesome.

[Sophus]

I also like Neil Peart... his words speak to me via Geddy Lee and I shiver.  

His lyrics are remarkable. Have you read any of his books? They are usually pretty slow paced but he has some interesting thoughts and a few atheistic comments in them.

Mark Twain is probably my favorite atheist because of his colorful take on life.

I heard recently that he was actually a deist.

[Steve Reason]

Oh I guess Hitchens is my favorite. Maybe Carl Sagan as well. My least favorite is any atheist that doesn't speak up when they should.

[Ihateyoumike]

Old thread, but oh well. As for my favorite atheists, here they are:

Fictional: Dr. House

Alive: Richard Dawkins or Penn Jillette

Not-Alive: Carl Sagan

[VanReal]

I had no idea Clooney was an atheist, I knew I liked him!!  I'm sad to say I don't know about many poplar or famous atheists.  Am I the only one that doesn't pay attention to this?  I guess I'd say Gene Roddenbury since I like Star Trek.

[Cemetery]

Matthew Sweet is my favorite atheist:

[karadan]

Albert Einstein. That's right all you religious nuts, I'm staking claim to Einstein.

Haha!

I'll drink to that.