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“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”

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Book:Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur

Source: Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur

“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”

“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.”

“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“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.”

Source: The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

“It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”

“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?”

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”

Source: The God Delusion

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”

Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

“A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion.”

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Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.”

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir