atheist quotes

[athoughtfulman]

I think would be quite funny if we had to disprove anything someone believed in, if we didn't think whatever they believed in was true.

Imagine the science journals discussing easter bunnies, ghosts, santa claus, my imaginary friend, star wars, harry potter, and every other strange ideas that some people believe to be true.

We'd get no where.

If science doesn't have to disprove santa, why does it have to disprove god?

[Kyuuketsuki]

"It's YOUR bible, they're YOUR rules, YOU burn in hell", Professor Marty Leipzig

"Jesus Christ -- who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death and rose bodily into the heavens -- can now be eaten in the form of a cracker. A few Latin words spoken over your favourite Burgundy, and you can drink his blood as well. Is there any doubt that a lone subscriber to these beliefs would be considered mad?" Sam Harris

"The bastard! He doesn't exist!" Samuel Beckett

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." Stephen Roberts

"Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can be doubted only by those who are ignorant of the evidence or are resistant to evidence, owing to emotional blocks or to plain bigotry" Theodosius Dobzhansky

Kyu

[Edwardo Piet]

( Replying straight over to Kyu above: )

Great quotes. The Stephen Roberts quote I am very familar with and think is awesome, the Sam Harris one I think I like best though! I don't believe I have seen the quote before but I read something similar that he wrote, in one or two places I think.

Like the last quote - think I read it before, good quote. First quote is brilliant and haven't seen it before and the Samuel Beckett quote is funny

Great quotes.

[Kyuuketsuki]

Great quotes.

Thanks ... I have many, many more! Sad though it may be I have several documents full of quotes.

For instance: (you knew I would didn't you?)

"If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this is indeed so. Until and unless some such grounds are produced we have literally no reason at all for believing; and in that situation the only reasonable posture must be that of either the negative atheist or the agnostic. So the onus of proof has to rest on the proposition [of theism]." Anthony Flew

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." Blaise Pascal

"The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us are going to the stars." David Gerrold

"I'm all for equal time for the teaching of creationism in schools. But since creation took 6 days and evolution billions of years, the equivalent time spent teaching creationism should only be one pico-second (approximately the time it takes a beam of light to travel the width of a human hair) for every four years spent teaching evolutionary science." E. T. Babinski

Kyu

[Edwardo Piet]

LMFAO that last quote is totally fucking brilliant.

[athoughtfulman]

Hahaha Kyuu, those quotes are great. Esp the one about the meek inheriting the earth. Gold

"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." - Don Hirschberg

"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk." - Tom Waits

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." George Bernard Shaw

"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." - Isaac Asamov

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means." - George Bernard Shaw