Atheism Quotes - Page 16

Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates. I am a Christ-myth advocate and am pursuing research into how Christianity could have begun without a historical Jesus of Nazareth. I am married with one daughter and three grandchildren.

Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.

Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.

Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.

No the first day, man crea tee God

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

[When asked 'Given the chance, how would you change the world?']

It's a big question. Getting rid of religion would be a good start, wouldn't it? It seems to be causing a lot of havoc.

People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell.

The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute, must feel that everything is permitted, that everybody can do what they like.

I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is - ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.

Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces.

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.

Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.

Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes our
beliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.