Atheism Quotes - Page 15

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.

Every time the sky cries, it is because an angel has died... Lucifer started a war in Heaven, and it persists even now. So if God cannot keep his angels under control, what makes you believe that he can keep humanity under control?

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

He's not god! He's just the asshole who fucks with us.

[From a May 1, 2004 article entitled "Still Up to Mischief" from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman]

Still, it's worth noting that by the age of 20 this whistle- blower had resisted two of the most powerful institutions - church and army, both. He is an atheist, 'And I have been against all of these wars ever since.

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.

...when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he can understand Him, he feels Nothing - not nothing, but Nothing, an edgeless blankness that somehow feels worse than the sort of unconsidered atheism he Came In with.

A long time ago I learned that an atheist and a believer trying to have a discussion about God and religion is like shooting the breeze and having it shoot back.

Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.

When we begin to see the equality of our biology then our ideology is exposed,

May all beings be free of pretended happiness.
May all beings find their deepest lie.
May all beings see the nature of their inner turmoil.
May all beings realize what they are not.
And through this, may all beings become who they already are.

I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes - one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate.