Atheist Quotes
I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don`t have as many people who believe it.
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
Not knowing the answer to a question is not a valid excuse for making up a fairytale to explain it.
Believers say that the entire unimaginable hugeness of the Universe was made specifically for the human race - when atheists, by contrast, say that humanity is a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, an infinitesimal eyeblink in the vastness of time and space - and then, [...] believers accuse atheists of being arrogant.
Once basic human needs for food/shelter/health care/education/social justice are fairly well met, people lose their need for religion.
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.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.