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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Often credited to Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Atheism is, I suppose, the supreme example of a simple faith.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Where All Roads Lead (1922)
- Faith
The atheist has no hope.
JCJ.F. Clarke1810–1888
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The God Delusion (2006) (p. 40)
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Root of All Evil? (2006)
Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 1 “Explaining the Very Improbable” (p. 6)
- Science
Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Letter to Richard Aldington (24 February 1927)
- Faith
If there is a god, why did he make me an atheist? That was his first mistake. Well, the talking snake was his first mistake.
Ricky Gervaisborn 1961“Inside the Actors Studio,” 2009
- Comedy
I do not believe in God, because I believe in man.
Emma Goldman1869–1940Answering questions after a speech in Detroit (1898), as recounted in Living My Life (1931), p. 207
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.
Sam Harrisborn 1967Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 51
- Anti-Religion
All thinking men are atheists.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 2In context
All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Good Sense without God (Le Bon Sens, 1772), sect. 30
- Children
You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know.”
Penn Jilletteborn 1955God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales (2011), p. xiii
Whatever you do, don’t read the Bible for a moral code: it advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition, and murder. Read it because: we need more atheists — and nothin’ will get you there faster than readin’ the damn Bible.
Penn Jilletteborn 1955“The Bible: Fact or Fiction?” Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 2 episode 6 (6 May 2004)
- Anti-Religion
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
FJFranklin D. Jones1879–1967