Quotations

The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

- ALBERT EINSTEIN


It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
- Arthur C. Clark


Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
- John Burroughs


An honest God is the noblest work of man.
- Robert Green Ingersoll


Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche


Praying is like a rocking chair -- it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
-- Gypsy Rose Lee


Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?.
-- Douglas Adams


For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy
-Feuerbach


People are crazy. They can’t create a fly, but they create gods by the dozen!
-Michel de Montaigne


God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-Voltaire


If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
-Woody Allen

They say God has existed from the beginning of time and will exist beyond the end of time. Can you imagine trying to sit through his home movies?
- Scott Roeben


God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
- Edward Abbey


From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
- Edward Abbey


Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
- Jean Anouilh

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
-- Susan B. Anthony


Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
- Ambrose Bierce


I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.
- Napoleon Bonapart

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

- Napoleon Bonapart

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon Bonapart


No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.
- George Bush sr.


Those who oppose capital punishment and war are moral perverts and degenerates; they have lost the capacity for righteous indignation.
-Rev. R. H. Charles


We recognize the Negro the way God, and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him -- our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude.
-Jefferson Davis


The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
-Rev. Jerry Fallwell


The difference between the people of Israel and the nations of the world is an essential one. The Jew by his source and in his very essence is entirely good. The goy, by his source and in his very essence is completely evil. This is not simply a matter of religious distinction, but rather of two completely different species.
-Rabbi Saadya Grama


Therefore, I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.

Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith.... We need believing people.
-Adolph Hitler


We have enough votes to run the country. And when people say, "We have had enough," we are going to take over.
-Rev. Pat Robertson


The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.
-The Roman Catholic church in condemnation of Galileo


If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.
-Rev. Jimmy Swaggart


I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
-Albert Einstein


Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
-Richard P. Feynman


I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.
-Benjamin Franklin


Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
-Stanislaw J. Lec


Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.
-Stanislaw J. Lec


Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.-
-H.L. Mencken


Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!.
-George Bernard Shaw


I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
-Mark Twain

Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in his divine system of creation?
-Joseph Heller


Rightwing Christian (..and Islamic) fundementalists seem to fear and hate sex and the human body.

But God, if she exists, designed our bodies as well as our sexualities.. or not?

Sir Thomas Brown, an 18th century Scottish philosopher complained, “All things considered, you would have thought that our creator, in his wisdom and in his genius, might have found a way of populating and re-populating the world that did not require us to engage in such unbelieveable antics, such preposterous forms of behaviour, such athletic gyrations, that are at once degrading and ludicrous. Why would God have us go through these things as the only way of keeping the world peopled..???”

He had 9 children, so the ludicrousness of the act didn’t seem to inhibit him greatly.