“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.” MenFormReligionRegardAtheistPositive AtheismAncient Gods Author:Aristotle
“My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.” HumansReligionBornMy OwnViewsRaceAtheismSourceDiseaseRegardMiseryAtheistPositive AtheismHuman Race Book:Why I Am Not a Christian Source: Why I Am Not a Christian
“Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.” SometimesBitsRegardAtheistIdiotArrogant Author:Richard Dawkins
“In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played so dominant a role in the preceding centuries that believers often cannot conceive how non-believers can muster sufficient commitment to their own lives to get out of bed each morning, let alone the ethical wherewithal to regard others as deserving of moral regard. Once one "comes out" as an atheist, these are the inquisitions to which one is often subjected.” KnowsHumansFactsAnswersMoralRolesMorningCenturyBedCommitmentRegardAtheistBelieverSufficientEthicalDominantDeservingInquisitionMusterNon Believer Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.” PeopleCriticismRegardAtheistConventionsConventionalFuryDepartureChange Is Good Book:The Conquest of Happiness Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.” ThinkingWorldMadeEnoughSpiritUniverseTheoryHairPersonalityEternalSurvivalEvidenceRegardAtheistAppearanceRadicalCosmicAgnosticUnlikelySpirit WorldUnjustifiedMoonshinePending Book:The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
“Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah. None of us would seriously consider the possibility that all the gods of Homer really exist... I think that all of us would say in regard to those gods that we were atheists. In regard to the Christian God, I should, I think, take exactly the same line.” ThinkingShouldChristianReligionLinesModernPossibilityPoliticianRegardAtheistCowardiceShould IJehovahChristian God Author:Bertrand Russell
“Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, the true believers in each of these faiths are atheists regarding the specific sacred tenets of all other faiths. Christianity rejects the proposition that the Quran contains the infallible words of the creator of the universe. Muslims and Jews reject the divinity of Jesus.” ReligionUniverseJesusChristianityAtheismMiracleRegardSacredIslamAtheistJewCreatorBelieverDivinityConsistentRejectsPropositionsJudaismWorldviewQuranInfallibleAtheisticTrue BelieverChristianity And Islam Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.” IfsHumansHandsReligionParentBornMy OwnViewsRaceWonderGoneAtheismSourceDiseaseRegardMiseryDefeatAtheistCrueltyMysteriousHuman RaceFear Of DeathHand In Hand Author:Bertrand Russell
“Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion.” ThinkingMayArtAchievementCapableRegardAtheistExcuseInsightBelieverShouldersPreparationGood WorkIncapableBoastImpossibilitySkepticCompletionContinuationUnbelievers Author:Karl Barth