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Image of Paul Laffoley
For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn't saying anything about what he really was at all. He wasn't even an agnostic. That's exactly what the situation is, in other words, when you enter an eternal realm. You've got to know there is no religion.
- Paul Laffoley
Collection: Atheist
Image of Penn Jillette
I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible
- Penn Jillette
Collection: Atheist
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The word ‘holiday’ comes from ‘holy day’ and holy means ‘exalted and worthy of complete devotion.’ By that definition, all days are holy. Life is holy. Atheists have joy every day of the year, every holy day. We have the wonder and glory of life. We have joy in the world before the lord is come. We’re not going for the promise of life after death; we’re celebrating life before death…For atheists, everything in the world is enough and every day is holy. Every day is an atheist holiday. It’s a day that we’re alive.
- Penn Jillette
Collection: Atheist
Image of Thomas Jefferson
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Atheist
Image of Penn Jillette
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
- Penn Jillette
Collection: Atheist
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It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.
- Penn Jillette
Collection: Atheist
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You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.
- Penn Jillette
Collection: Atheist
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It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant to know that there's no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who loves you personally. It's not sad to feel that life and the love of your real friends and family is more than enough to make life worth living. Isn't it much sadder to feel that there is a more important love required than the love of the people who have chosen to spend their limited time with you?
- Penn Jillette
Collection: Atheist
Image of Anthony Jeselnik
I was raised Catholic. I rejected it later on. I'm an outspoken atheist now. People say, 'Oh, it's a negative thing to be an atheist.' I don't agree. I think it's more optimistic to think that there is no God, no afterlife.
- Anthony Jeselnik
Collection: Atheist
Image of Samuel Johnson
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Atheist
Image of Erica Jong
There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
- Erica Jong
Collection: Atheist
Image of Penn Jillette
I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.
- Penn Jillette
Collection: Atheist
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Everyday is an atheist holiday.
- Penn Jillette
Collection: Atheist
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The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.
- Penn Jillette
Collection: Atheist
Image of Douglas Adams
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.
- Douglas Adams
Collection: Atheist
Image of Francis Bacon
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Atheist
Image of Erica Jong
But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
- Erica Jong
Collection: Atheist
Image of Thomas Jefferson
I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Atheist
Image of Douglas Adams
People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)
- Douglas Adams
Collection: Atheist
Image of Robert Green Ingersoll
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Atheist
Image of Francis Bacon
There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Atheist
Image of John Maynard Keynes
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .
- John Maynard Keynes
Collection: Atheist
Image of Victor Hugo
There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
- Victor Hugo
Collection: Atheist
Image of Thomas Jefferson
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Atheist
Image of Douglas Adams
If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.
- Douglas Adams
Collection: Atheist
Image of Francis Bacon
God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Atheist
Image of Billy Joel
As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay!
- Billy Joel
Collection: Atheist
Image of Robert Green Ingersoll
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Atheist
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For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Atheist
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Atheist
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This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Atheist
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Atheist
Image of Samuel Johnson
It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which they can influence, with more importunity of solicitation to adopt their opinions. In proportion as they doubt the truth of their own doctrines, they are desirous to gain the attestation of another understanding: and industriously labour to win a proselyte, and eagerly catch at the slightest pretense to dignify their sect with a distinguished name.
- Samuel Johnson
Collection: Atheist
Image of John F. Kerry
I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.
- John F. Kerry
Collection: Atheist
Image of Francis Bacon
The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Atheist
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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Atheist
Image of Francis Bacon
Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
- Francis Bacon
Collection: Atheist
Image of Douglas Adams
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
- Douglas Adams
Collection: Atheist
Image of Robert Green Ingersoll
With soap, baptism is a good thing.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Atheist
Image of John Locke
Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.
- John Locke
Collection: Atheist
Image of C. S. Lewis
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Atheist
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Atheist
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Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Atheist
Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Collection: Atheist
Image of Mikhail Bakunin
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.
- Mikhail Bakunin
Collection: Atheist
Image of Elizabeth Kostova
These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.
- Elizabeth Kostova
Collection: Atheist
Image of C. S. Lewis
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Atheist