We’ve all got a little bit of atheist in our souls. After all, we’re born atheists. I don’t think there’s yet been a religion created capable of destroying this part of us. A part as natural as the very brain that religion seeks to disconnect.
So what do you say to a bit of godless celebration? Enjoy a few quotes from some of my favorite free thinkers.
And remember, god is watching..
“If you talk to God you are praying, if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.”
– Thomas Szasz
“Public prayer is not intended to promote religious values, but to enhance the authority of some churches and political views over others.”
– Ellery Schempp
“There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings.”
– Frederick Nietzsche
“We cannot be a top country if we let science and education be run by people who think that dinosaurs were drowned in Noah’s flood.”
– Katha Pollitt
“Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life except religion.”
– Christopher Hitchens
“Start out understanding religion by saying that everything is possibly wrong. As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.”
– Richard Feynman
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
– Richard Dawkins
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
– Issac Asimov
“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called a Religion.”
– Robert M. Persig
“If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I’d be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote.”
– Carl Sagan
