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"The universe was created by an all-powerful all-knowing being who came down to us in the form of a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father who can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree."
-- Every Christian (from bartcop.com)

Faith enables a person to fool himself into thinking that he is maintaining his standards of reasonableness, while forsaking them.
-- Sam Harris, excerpt from an article in the Washington Post.

"The difference between lawyers and preachers?
You pay lawyers to lie FOR you,
but you pay preachers to lie TO you."
- Larry Rhodes

"FAITH is Wonderful!
With FAITH you can believe ANYTHING!"
- Larry Rhodes

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centures since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
-- Isaac Asimov, Canadian Atheists Newsletter, 1994

"If we accept Religion's version of human history, we are denying our own true history, the actual human story. Homo Sapiens have endured for a 150,000 years, not 6,000. We have survived global catastrophes (ex: The Toba Caldera Eruption, the Yellowstone Eruption, and an Ice Age), and have battled the Neanderthal for human supremacy of the planet. We have fought the mighty Mammoth, the Mastodon, and the Saber-Tooth tiger. And, in spite of this, and in spite of being constantly plagued by superstition and religion, we have managed to develop Reason and the Scientific Method to finely honed tools for examining, and explaining, the universe around us"
Larry Rhodes.

"Mankind, indeed the planet itself and all life on it, have two 'saints' and one 'savior'. The saints are named Logic and Reason. The savior is known as Science. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately if you're clergy, no religion has ever made the aquaintance of these august personages.
Jeff I.

"Why would a God create people so imperfect, and then blame them for his own imperfections. Then send his own son to be murdered by those imperfect people, to make up for how imperfect those people were. And how imperfect they were inevitably going to be. I mean, what a crazy idea."
Julia Sweeney Excerpt from her own deconversion story.

"Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it."
-Shakti Gawain, teacher and author (b. 1948)
(I think it's just as valid when you replace the word "Evil" with "Religion" - Doubter5)

"A clergyman is a man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs
as a method of bettering his earthly ones."
Ambrose Bierce

"Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate. I don't travel in circles where people say, "I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith." That's just a long-winded religious way to say, "shut up," or another two words that the FCC likes less. But all obscenity is less insulting than, "How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do." So, believing there is no God lets me be proven wrong and that's always fun. It means I'm learning something." - Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller)

"God is obsessed with the degree that people worship Him, and is anxious to punish, with the most awful torments, those who don't worship Him in the right way."

Steven Weinberg

"The god of the Old Testament has got to be the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it, petty, vindictive, unjust, unforgiving, racist, an ethnic-cleanser urging his people on to acts of genocide."

Richard Dawkins

"If the lord had meant us to have faith, he'd have given us lobotomies."
Zlatko

"Hence today, I believe 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." - Hitler (Mein Kampf)

"Until it is proven, God is a theory, and the burden of proof of a theory is on those positing the theory --not on the world to disprove the theory."
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"All humans are brothers. Religion turns brothers against each other."
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"Religion is an extremely divisive force in society. There is a fine line between religion and ethnic pride. There is an even finer line between ethnic pride and racism."

Quotes by Harold A. Meyer III

"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around."
Herb Caen (b. 1916), U.S. columnist, author. San Francisco Chronicle (20 July 1981)

The Church attacked the habit of the bath on the ground that everything which makes the body more attractive tends towards sin Dirt was praised and the odor of sanctity became more and more penetrating. 'The purity of the body and its garments,' said St. Paula, 'means the impurity of the soul.' ( Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol. IV, p. 31.) Lice were called the pearls of God, and to be covered with them was an indispensable mark of a holy man. (M. M.p48/9)
Bertrand Russell

"Well, why did the Puritans come to this country?" a teacher asked his history class.
"To worship in their own way and to make other people do the same" was the reply.
Frank Zindler

"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. Field

"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true."
Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism

"One might be asked "How can you prove that a god does not exist?"
One can only reply that it is scarcely necessary to disprove what has never been proved."
David A. Spitz

"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed."
Luis Buquel

"I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil."
Clarence Darrow, quoted from Art Thomas (with Emanuel Haldeman-Julius), "Clarence Darrow"

"The first religions were created by shamans and witch-doctors, and some would say that we're still answering to them."
Unknown

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
Nietzsche

"I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood".
George Carlin

"Faith (n): What your preacher says you have to have so that you'll believe whatever else he wants to tell you." - Unknown

The Riddle of Epicurus
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?
(Translated and paraphrased by a PAM volunteer, name withheld.)

"My skin still crawls when I hear the wondrous complexity of the modern world ascribed to the wisdom of some god or other. I find myself thinking, it is such explanations that dull us, quiet us, prevent us from looking further. This world is here, let us explore it. Let us not make such banal exultations that subtly put it beyond our potential understanding."
An Anonymous Atheist

Dan Barker (preacher turned atheist) Quotes

"The very concept of sin comes from the bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?"
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"I never knew real joy until I regained possession of my own mind."
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"How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost?"
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[On prayer] "To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance."

"The established religions should be rejected as the work of power hungry men, not higher powers. Religion is and always has been a tool for mass population control." James Casey (read more here)

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
Carl Sagan

"God so hated the world, that he sent his only son, so that whoever does not believe in him will perish and burn in hell for ever and ever." - Anonymous

"When you talk to God, it's called prayer. When God talks to you, it's called schizophrenia" - Unknown

"The Catholic Church is the world's oldest criminal organization"
Kwame Somburu, 2004, in a radio interview with the Infidel Guy

"Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook."
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 171

"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 - in 1896, addressing the National American Woman Suffrage Association meeting

"Stating 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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality."
George Bernard Shaw

"Religion has not civilized man - man has civilized religion." - Robert Ingersoll

"The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them."
Joseph Campbell

"Atheism is a requirement for a complete human being. Religion is a crutch that is shackled to you, one you never really needed in the first place, but were convinced by others that you couldn't live without. Once you discover it's only an illusion, that it's not even a real crutch, you discard it gladly." - Brent Yaciw

"Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge. " Ayn Rand

"You conquered us, not fairly in battle but by infecting us with your foul diseases; you stole our land and shut us up into open-air cages; you trapped the animals and burnt the forests we depended on for food and shelter; worst of all, you robbed us of our Great Spirit and put your own horrible scarecrow in its place."
Montreal Expo, Canadian Indian exhibit (Paraphrased)

"The way to make money is to start your own religion."
L. Ron Hubbard, father of Scientology, 1954

"...to argue with a man who has renouced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead."
Robert Ingersoll's Works, Vol. 1, p.127

"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so"
Adolph Hitler, to Gen. Gerhard Engel, 1941

"It seems to me that with or without religion good people will behave well and bad people will do evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." So says Steven Weinberg, Nobel physicist.

"To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force." Hypatia (c. 370-415 CE)
This site is dedicated to Hypatia , a true martyr for knowledge. She was a mathematician, scientist, philosopher, and the Head Librarian of the Great Library of Alexandria.
She was flayed and killed by Christians, and the great library was burned. Cyril, the leader of the Christians, was later made a saint by the Catholic Church.