Hey Nick I have that one and many.
Quotes:
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." -- Thomas Paine
"By the year 2000, we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God." -- Gloria Steinem
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." -- Benjamin Franklin
"The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see." -- Huang Po
"There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages." -- Richard Lederer (Anguished English)
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." -- Gene Roddenberry
"I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life -- our desire to go on living -- our dread of coming to an end." -- Thomas Edison
"Our ignorance is God; what we know is science." -- Robert Ingersoll
"Religionists claim that their truth is absolute and rock solid, while scientists concede that their truth is tentative and relative." -- C. W. Dalton
[The Bible] has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of thousand lies. -- Mark Twain
"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency." -- Albert Ellis
"In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people." -- James Madison
"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." -- Cardinal Bellarmine
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." -- Arthur C. Clarke,
All thinking men are atheists. -- Ernest Hemingway
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" -- Carl Sagan
"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business." -- Jesse "the body" Ventura
"If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.." -- Robert Ingersoll
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize [hu]mankind." -- Thomas Paine
"Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits." -- Dan Barker
"I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless." -- Peter Walker
"The fact that mankind has the capablity to discern logic from myth, and the fact that religon asks us to ignore this ability and accept faith is one of the many contradictions that make any faith-based orgaizations simply ludicrous." -- Vic Sinclair
"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated." -- Madalyn Murray O'Hair
"So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk." -- Thomas Edison
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." -- Susan B. Anthony
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." -- James Madison
"If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!" -- Clark Adams
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." -- Benjamin Franklin
"The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes." -- Martin Luther
"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer." -- Anonymous
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." -- Richard Dawkins
"I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man." -- Robert Ingersoll
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief. -- George Bernard Shaw
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true." -- Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain"
"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no [organized] religion in it" -- John Adams
"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
"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis." -- Sigmund Freud
"The divorce between church and state ought to be absolute. It ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no church property anywhere, in any state, or in any nation, should be exempt from taxation, for if you exempt the church property of any church organization, to that extent you impose tax upon the whole community." -- Pres. James A. Garfield
"I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States." -- Thomas Edison
Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas. -- W.C.Fields
"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurences it cannot understand." -- Karl Marx
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." -- Voltaire [François Marie Arouet]
- "The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail" -- Gustaf Lindborg
The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma. -- Abraham Lincoln
"I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion is a terrific meme. That's right. But that doesn't make it true and I care about what's true. Smallpox virus is a terrific virus. It does its job magnificently well. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing. It doesn't mean that I don't want to see it stamped out." -- Richard Dawkins (Interviewed in: Sceptic vol 3, no 4, 1995)
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." -- Chapman Cohen
"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window." -- Stephen King
By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none. -- Sir Charles 'Charlie' Chaplin
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins (The Humanist, Vol. 57, No. 1)
"It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men." -- Carl Sagan
"I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"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
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." -- Isaac Asimov
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." -- Thomas Jefferson
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." -- Albert Einstein
Just some stuff to think about.
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