Formidable Atheist Quotes - AskAtheists.com

[chrisbeach]

Over many years I've curated a list of top atheist quotes - now numbering over 10,000. They're available here:

[link removed]

[address removed] is a new home for the quotes (as of this week), and I'd be delighted if you would help me spread the word about the site on Facebook, Twitter etc.

A little taster:

"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 F Roberts

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." -- Seneca the Younger

"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend" -- Richard Jeni

[Minimalist]

Seneca never said that.

It was Edward Gibbon in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

http://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/volume1/chap2.htm

The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.

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[paulpablo]

I think the most witty formidable atheist quote i have is

Go Blow Fucking Allah Out Your Ass, Shithead.---Minimalist

[Darwinian]

Not 'the' Chris Beach? It was because of your atheist quotes site that I first got interested in being more active in this field and the reason I sought out an atheist forum in the first place.

Welcome oh' Master

P.S. I'll have a word with the rest of the staff about your links

[chrisbeach]

Yes, I am "the" Chris Beach with the top spot in Google for "atheist quotes". I understand your reluctance to accept links from new members but I felt it was a useful resource for your visitors and I'd very much appreciate if you could reinstate the link

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Minimalist, thanks for pointing that out. I have updated the quote on askatheists.com

To help identify such errors in the future, I'm going to enable commenting on quotes, and I also want to link to sources too, where available.

I'm keen to ensure the quotes are accurate. I hunted far and wide for Stephen Roberts, whose quote is #1, and has been misappropriated all over the web. I'm pleased to say he is now signed up as a member of the fledgeling askatheists.com community

Seneca never said that.
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[Something completely different]

"Mensch sein heißt, sich minderwertig zu fühlen. Der Mensch bleibt unvollkommen, der Gottesbegriff entspricht am besten dem dunklen Sehnen des Menschen nach Vollkommenheit."

"Being human means to feel inferior. A human being stays uncompleted, the concept of god is what comes closest to the dark human wish to be complet."

- Alfred Adler - One of the founders of modern psychotherapy

I see no god up here.

- Juri Gagarin - First man in space (first words ever spoken by a human in space)

"The aims of life are the best defense against death."

- Primo Levi - Novelist, Chemist and Auschwitz survivor

[paulpablo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1yOckwMm_k

[chrisbeach]

I'm told I need to write 30 posts before the URL is displayed to you guys. Here goes..!

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"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" --Epicurus

[downbeatplumb]

Not 'the' Chris Beach? It was because of your atheist quotes site that I first got interested in being more active in this field and the reason I sought out an atheist forum in the first place.

Welcome oh' Master

P.S. I'll have a word with the rest of the staff about your links

I remember you showing me the site. That was more years ago than I care to remember.

[chrisbeach]

Here's another quote (25 more to go before I'm able to share the URL of my site with you):

Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church --Unknown