A collection of interesting quotes about religion from an atheistic viewpoint.
___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
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. – Christopher Hitchens
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan
Religion is the opiate of the masses. – Karl Marx
Where knowledge ends, religion begins. - Benjamin Disrael
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. - Sigmund Freud
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Richard Dawkins
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. Frater Ravus
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
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
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. – Richard Dawkins
A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it. – David Stevens
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. - George Bernard Shaw
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. - Mark Twain
If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse. - Woody Allen
"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." - Don Hirschberg
Faith means not wanting to know what is true. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. – Richard Dawkins
The most henious and the must cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. - Gandhi.
I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I’m ‘bad’. – Mike Fuhrman
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
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. – Anonymous
All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. – Matthew Arnold
A believer states everything must have a creator but fail to say how he was created. – Anonymous
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. - Anonymous
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. – Chapman Cohen
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
“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.” Justin Brown
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. – Susan B. Anthony
Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived. – Isaac Asimov
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ..But He loves you.- George Carlin
Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. – Anonymous
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. – Doug McLeod
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. – Anonymous
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. – Anonymous
You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do. - Anonymous
Jesus hardly made the greatest sacrifice. He knew he would be resurrected anyway. – Anonymous
God should be executed for crimes against humanity. – Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez
On the first day, man created God. – Anonymous
Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. – Steven Colbert
I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. – Douglas Adams
Today’s religion will be the future’s mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever. – Steven Crocker
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. – Robert A Heinlein
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. - Richard Lederer
If god doesn`t like the way I live, Let him tell me, not you. - Anonymous
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