--Mark Twain
"The Christians greatest fear is knowledge and truth"
--Shane Hudnell
"Religion has to be believed, science only has to be seen."
--Shane Hudnell
"If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing"
--Anatole France
"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history"
-- Noam Chomsky
"If religion had never came about the world would be a peaceful place."
--Shane Hudnell
"I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work."
--Adolph Hitler, Speech, Reichstag, 1936
"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."
-- Thomas Paine
"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites."
-- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to his nephew, Peter Carr
"The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"There is no god without sin."
--Shane Hudnell
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
--Napoleon Bonaparte
"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it"
--John Adams
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
--Carl Sagan
"The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see."
--Huang Po
"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
--Cardinal Bellarmine
"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
"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."
--Karl Marx
"Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning."
--Albert Einstein
"There once was a time when all people beleived in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages."
--Richard Lederer (Anguished English)
"If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!"
--Clark Adams
"If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going?"
--Justin Brown
"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated."
--Madalyn Murray O'Hair
"To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy."
--David Brooks (The Necessity of Atheism)
"Religion is the opiate of the masses."
-- Karl Marx
"Once a ruler becomes religious, it [becomes] impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell."
-- Colonel Moammar Qaddafi, at the General People's Congress in Tripoli in October, 1989
"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm."
--Marcus Aurelius
"The individual freedom of conscience protected by the First Amendment embraces the right to select any religious faith or none at all."
--Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.s. 38,53 (1985)
"Minds are like parachutes - They only function when open"
--Unknown
"Scientists and educators alike need to realize that the educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers."
--Theodore Schick Jr.
"Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas."
--John W. Draper
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
--Isaac Asimov
"Whenever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people."
--Heinrich Heine
"An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality."
--Erich Fromm
``religion is just mind control.''
--George Carlin
"Modern society without organized religion would be like a crazed maniac without a chainsaw."
--unknown
"We created god in our own image and likeness!"
--George Carlin
"If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it."
--Thomas Carlyle
"The order of creation in the Bible is woefully incorrect and violates even the most simple and obvious rules of natural science."
--Charles Cazeau, U.S. professor of geology
"We found that we didn't have much problem with him [J.C.], it was his followers we found questionable".
--Graham Chapman, discussing making of "Life of Brian"
"It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty."
--Ilka Chase
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him."
--Arthur C. Clarke
"It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
--W. K. Clifford
"The devil and God are components of a Siamese twin. Neither has any existence apart from the other. In denying the existence of the one, Christians have helped to kill the other. If there need to be no fear of hell, people may well ask what is the attraction of heaven? Gods and devils were born together. Gods and devils will die together."
--Chapman Cohen, "The Devil", Pamphlets for the People, no. 6
"If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good."
--Morris Cohen
"He who begins by loving Christ tianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I told the priest, Don't count on any second coming, God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming."
--Concrete Blonde
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
--Joseph Conrad
"And I just want to say...anyone who quotes the bible...that's bullshit. Because the bible is a book that has fucked up the world more than any other single book. A book that was written by a bunch of male chauvinists."
--Consolidated, "Dominion"
"As "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make one drink," so also, "You can drag a Christian to the truth, but you can't make one think."
--Delmar Coughlin
"Why does god cause tornados and train wrecks?"
--Crash Test Dummies
"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."
--A. Crowley
"I don't believe in god because I don't believe in Mother Goose."
--Clarence Darrow, speech, Toronto, 1930
"The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth."
--Clarence Darrow
"In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality."
--Clarence Darrow, The Sign, May 1938
"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation..."
--Charles Darwin
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
--Democritus
"Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it."
--Charles Dickens
"If thinking freely for yourself is a sure ticket to hell,then the conversations in heaven must be awfully boring."
--San Francisco's infamous *Dr. Weirde*
"All Bibles are man-made."
--Thomas Edison
"So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk."
--Thomas Edison
"I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States."
--Thomas Edison
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
--Albert Einstein
"Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism."
--Albert Einstein
"Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."
--T.S. Eliot, Milton, 1947
"And it is in his own image, let us remember, that Man creates God."
--H. Havelock Ellis
"When belief in a god dies, the god dies."
--Harlan Ellison, "Deathbird Stories"
"Religion stills a thinking mind."
--Greg Erwin
"The Theologian is an owl, sitting on an old dead branch in the tree of human knowledge, and hooting the same old hoots that have been hooted for hundreds and thousands of years, but he has never given a hoot for progress."
--Emmet F. Fields
"I was at Bible camp, learning how to be more judgmental."
--Mrs. Flanders (Homer Simpson's neighbor)
"There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense."
--George W. Foote
"Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin."
--Anatole France
"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief."
--Sigmund Freud
"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis."
--Sigmund Freud, "Future of an Illusion"
"I turned to speak to God/About the world's despair;/But to make bad matters worse/I found God wasn't there."
--Robert Frost (1874-1963)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use."
--Galileo
"Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world."
--Richard Le Gallienne
"The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think, and next to the right to think is the right to express that thought without fear."
--Helen H. Gardner - Men, Women and Gods
"Man created God, not God, man"
--Garibaldi
"The happy do not believe in miracles."
--Goethe
"Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental ability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an organized institution that has always been a stumbling block to progress."
--Emma Goldman, "What I Believe"
"God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist."
--Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915) French novelist, critic, philosopher
"Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought."
--Graham Greene, 1981
"Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction."
--E. Haldeman-Julius, "The Meaning Of Atheism" BR>
"To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind."
--E. Haldeman-Julius, "The Meaning Of Atheism"
"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love."
--Butch Hancock
"I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had existed I should have discovered him."
--Thomas Hardy
"Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ."
--Heine
"History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it."
--Robert Heinlein, "Notebooks of Lazarus Long"
"God was invented, not discovered."
--Shane Hudnell
"Man kind would have traveled out of the solar system by now, if religion had never been invented."
--Shane Hudnell
"Atheism = Freedom"
--Unknown
"I'm an atheist, and that's *it*. I belive there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people."
--Katherine Hepburn
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator."
--Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf , pp. 46
"This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief."
--Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf , pp.152
"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so"
--Adolph Hitler, to Gen. Gerhard Engel, 1941
"Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination."
--Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor, publisher
"The way to make money is to start your own religion."
--L. Ron Hubbard, 1954
"You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough."
--Aldous Huxley
"The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable."
--Thomas Huxley, English biologist
"The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth."
--Robert G. Ingersoll
"God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race."
--Robert G. Ingersoll
"Science built the Academy, superstition the inquisition."
--Robert G. Ingersoll
"There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom."
--Robert G. Ingersoll
"One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests."
--Robert G. Ingersoll, Speech, New York City, 1 May 1881
"Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition."
--Paul Keller, American rationalist
"Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate."
--F. M. Knowles
"...your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life."
--Krishnamurti
"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
--Anne Lamott
"We found a great number of books...and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the Devil we burned them all."
--Catholic Bishop Diego De Landa, after burning priceless books of Mayan history and science, July 1562
"As nations improve, so do their gods."
--G. C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German physicist, writer
"If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist."
--Lucretius, Roman poet
"Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods."
--Lucretius (96?-55 B.C.)
"How many evils have flowed from religion."
--Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 57 B.C.
"Reason should be destroyed in all Christians."
--Martin Luther
"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church."
--Ferdinand Magellan
"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurences it cannot understand."
--Karl Marx
"Puritanism- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
--H.L. Mencken
