How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody AllenIf I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoléon BonaparteMany religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.
Christopher HitchensTags: religion atheism fundamentalism
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
VoltaireTags: injustice religion atheism skepticism absurdities atrocities barbarity
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
Christopher HitchensTags: cats food dogs god religion atheism water affection pets shelter
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
Denis DiderotEpicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
David HumeTags: atheism
With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergTags: god religion atheism bible
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.
Carl SaganTags: atheism afterlife immortality
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.
Ayaan Hirsi AliTags: life inspirational death atheism
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