Atheist quotes I culled from the web

"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)

"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing -- fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand." Why I Am Not A Christian (Bertrand Russell)

"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." What is an Agnostic? (Bertrand Russell)

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." (Bertrand Russell)

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." (Bob Marley – originally Abraham Lincoln)

"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." (Mark Twain)

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

"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)

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." (Frank Lloyd Wright)

"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)

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." Clarke's autobiography (Arthur C. Clarke)

"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window." (Stephen King)

"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank." (Woody Allen)

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." (Woody Allen)

"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)

"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."

"Humanity without religion is like a serial killer without a chainsaw."

"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." (Don Hirschberg)

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." (Napoleon Bonaparte)

"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." (John Buchan)

"I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service." (Andrew Carnegie)

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." (Chapman Cohen)

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." (H. L. Mencken)

"Men never commit evil so fully and joyfuly as when they do it for religious convictions" (Blaise Pascal)

"The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence." (Abu Ala Al-Ma'arri)

"No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism." (Annie Wood Besant)

"Organizing atheists is like hurding cats" (Madalyn Murray O'Hair)

"Theists think all gods but theirs are false. Atheists simply don't make an exception for the last one." (unknown)

"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish" (unknown)

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?" Losing Faith in Faith, (Dan Barker)

"Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends! Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!" (Ned Flanders – The Simpsons)

"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)

"Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience." (Pat Robertson)

"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." (Adolf Hitler)