QUOTES ON ATHEISM
A material resurrection seems strange, and even absurd, except for purposes of punishment; and all punishment which is to revenge rather than to correct, must be morally wrong. And when the world is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?
-- Lord Byron
I recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian. The two were engaged in a disputation and the theologian used the old quip about a philosopher being like a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat -- which wasn't there. "That may be," said the philosopher; but a theologian would have found it."
-- Julian Huxley
If we are going to teach "creation science" . . . as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
-- Judith Hayes
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
-- Anonymous
Blasphemy? No, it is not blasphemy. If God is as vast as that, He is above blasphemy; if He is as little as that, He is beneath it.
-- Mark Twain
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
-- Bertrand Russell
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children . . . is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
-- Thomas Paine
I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
Well, I believe that there's somebody out there who watches over us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
-- Woody Allen
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
-- Voltaire
Clergyman, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Difference in Opinions hath cost many Millions of Lives: For instance, whether Flesh be Bread, or Bread be Flesh; Whether the Juice of a certain Berry be Blood or Wine.
--Jonathan Swift
I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God.
-- George H. W. Bush
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