Tuesday, June 15, 2010

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101 quotes about atheism

Famous atheist bloggers ( link) has written some time ago to a now very famous article in which he has made 101 websites around the disbelief together. The original article can be found here .

me the review has so impressed that I decided to translate the quotations. Here is the result:

first The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is comparable to the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous goods. - George Bernard Shaw

second Faith means to know the truth do not want. - Friedrich Nietzsche

third I believe in God, I only spell it nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

4th We must question the logic of an omniscient, omnipotent God who creates the wrong people and then blames them for their misbehavior. - Gene Roddenberry

5th The ignorance and to give them was to call it God has always been precocious, and it remains so today. - Isaac Asimov

6th A man is taken up for his faith in a church and for his knowledge thrown out again. - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

7th Religion is the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers felt to be useful. - Seneca the Younger

8th The philosophy consists of questions to be answered, perhaps never. Religion consists of answers that may never be questioned. - Anonymous

9th Not only is there no God, try to mal am Wochenende einen Klempner zu kriegen! – Woody Allen

10. Wenn ich kein Atheist wäre, würde ich an einen Gott glauben, der die Entscheidung, wen er retten soll und wen nicht, auf der Basis der Gesamtheit des Lebens eines Menschen trifft, nicht auf der Basis des Musters ihrer Worte. Ich denke, er würde einen ehrlichen und rechtschaffenen Atheisten einem Fernsehprediger bevorzugen, der nur von Gott, Gott, Gott redet und dessen Taten alle schlecht, schlecht, schlecht sind. – Isaac Asimov

11. Glaube an das Übernatürliche zeugt von einem Versagen der Vorstellungskraft. – Edward Abbey

12. Mit oder ohne Religion würden gute Menschen Gutes und schlechte Menschen Schlechtes tun. Aber damit gute Menschen Schlechtes tun, dafür braucht es die Religion. – Steven Weinberg

13. Ich denke immer noch, dass ein Kirchturm mit Blitzableiter ein gewisses Vertrauen vermissen lässt. – Doug McLeod

14. Es gibt genau zwei Sorten von Menschen: Intelligente Menschen ohne Religion und religiöse Menschen ohne Intelligenz. – Abu'L-Ala-Al-Ma'Arri

15. Wo doch die Bibel und die Kirche so offensichtlich falsch liegen, was die Frage betrifft, woher wir kommen, warum sollten wir ihnen bei der Frage, wohin wir gehen, trauen? – Anonym

16. I hege Misstrauen gegenüber Menschen die genau wissen, was Gott will, weil I have noticed is that it always coincides with their own interests. - Susan B. Anthony

17th The invisible and the non-existent look very similar. - Delos B. McKown

18th Two hands working can do more than thousands of folded in prayer. - Anonymous

19th Atheism gives people of sense, to philosophy, to piety, to laws, to reputation, which could be all of the policies of outward moral virtue, even if religion would disappear. But religious faith but rejected all of these and established an absolute monarchy in their midst. - Francis Bacon

20th The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character of the entire seal: jealous and proud to be a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak, a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser, a misogynistic, homophobic, racist children and perpetrators of genocide, a pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadistic, capricious, vicious tyrant. - Richard Dawkins

21st A God who would continue to screw around in the universe is absurd, one God, the impact on human freedom and creativity would take would be a tyrant. Is God in your own world view, as an ego that is connected with a thought is as a cause separate from its effect, he is a creature and not the essence of being itself a powerful, all-knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who all men to mere gears in the machine that they control making. An atheism that rejects such a God is very well justified. - Karen Armstrong

22nd It's not like in the Bible that God created man in His own image. On the contrary, man created God in his image. - Ludwig Feuerbach

23rd People ask me what I think about these women-priest's history. What a woman as a priest? Women priests. Ganz toll, jetzt gibt es Priester beider Geschlechter, denen ich nicht zuhöre. – Bill Hicks

24. Alle biblischen Wunder werden letztlich mit dem Fortschritt der Wissenschaft verschwinden. – Matthew Arnold

25. Blinder Glaube ist ein ziemlich Ironisches Geschenk für den Schöpfer menschlicher Intelligenz. – Anonym

26. Sei dankbar, dass du ein Leben hast und verabschiede dich von deinem eingebildetem und anmaßendem Willen nach einem zweiten. – Richard Dawkins

27. Was ohne Beweis behauptet werden kann, kann auch ohne Beweis abgelehnt werden. – Christopher Hitchens

28. Im Christentum kommen weder Morals or religion at any point in contact with reality. - Friedrich Nietzsche

29th Women will still be very proud to have never contributed a single line to the Bible. - George W. Foote

30th On the first day God created man. - Anonymous

31st I note that we are both atheists. I believe only in a god less than you, if you understand why you reject all other gods, you will understand why I reject your God. - Stephen Roberts

32nd You do not the Bible to justify love. But so far, no better remedy invented to hatred - Richard A. Weatherwax

33rd Who is God? Well, you know, if you want something really quite doll and close your eyes and it you want? God is the guy who ignores you. - Steve Buscemi (From the film "The Island")

34th As far as I can say that after studying the scriptures it is pretty much what you do in heaven sitting all day in the area around and praise the Lord. I do not know about you, but I think after the, oh, I do not know, 50,000,000 years would I think I a bit boring. - Rick Reynolds

35th Give a man a fish and he has food for a day. Bring a man to fish and he has the food for the rest of his life. Give a man a religion and he will starve to death praying for fish. - Anonymous

36th to call atheism a religion is about the same as if you were "bald" call a hair color. - Don Hirschberg

37th God should be executed for crimes against humanity. - Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez

38th To say that atheism requires faith is so hollow as saying that disbelief in fairies and goblins would require faith. Even if Einstein himself would tell me that an elf sitting on my shoulder, I would still ask for proof and I would have every right to do so. - Geoff Mather

39th I am not afraid of death. I was responsible for billions and billions of years died before I was born and I had not suffered the slightest inconvenience. - Mark Twain

40th Of all religions, but Christianity is the one that should inspire the most tolerance. However, Christians have been identified as the most intolerant of all men out. - Voltaire

41st And if there was a God, I think it would be very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity to be offended about the fact that some do not believe in him. - Bertrand Russell

42nd God wants to prevent evil but can not? Then he is not omnipotent. Can he, will he not? Then he is malevolent. Is he both willing and able? Whence then comes evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus

43rd I am a Polyatheist - There are many gods, and I do not think so. - Dan Fouts

44th If it turns out that there is a God, I do not think he is evil. But what one can certainly say about him is that he remains much below expectations. - Woody Allen

45th A lie is a lie although all believe in it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it. - David Stevens

46th Men do it rarely, if ever, to think of a God who is superior to them himself. Most gods have the manners and moral ideas of a spoiled child. - Robert Heinlein A

47th 'I refuse to prove that I exist! " God says, 'because evidence was unnecessary faith and without faith I am nothing! " - Douglas Adams

48th It's not the parts of the Bible, which I do not understand that annoy me, they are the parts of the Bible, which I understand. - Mark Twain

49th The one who does not think, is a narrow-minded, who, thinking that can not is a fool, he who dares not is a reflection Skalve. - William Drummond

50th Remember, Jesus would rather embarrass the gay days, as orphans give a home. - Steven Colbert

51st What is man? One of God's blunders or one of his threats? - Friedrich Nietzsche

52nd Religion is very effective in three areas: separate people, people control and deceive people. - Carle Spie Mary Alice McKinney

53rd Religion is the human mankind through the various stages Existence of more suffering and misery inflicted than any other single idea. - Anonymous

54th If a man freed from religion, so get his chances to lead healthy and fulfilling life. - Sigmund Freud

55th They thought that science could have a corrosive effect on religious faith and were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right! Science corrode religious belief and that's a good thing! - Steven Weinberg

56th Taking the Church of the supernatural that the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable and the absurd, so there is nothing left but a vacuum. - Robert G. Ingersoll

57th History teaches us that nothing has brought more war, death and suffering than the word of God. - Giulian Buzila

58th Atheism is a non-prophet making organization. - George Carlin

59th We are all atheists when it comes to the lion's share of all gods, was believed in the ever. Some of us go further containing only one God. - Richard Dawkins

60th A creditor claims forgets everything must have a Creator, yet to mention who created him. - Anonymous

61st The statement that there are no atheists in the trenches gäbe ist kein Argument gegen den Atheismus, es ist ein Argument gegen Schützengräben. – James Morrow

62. Die Leute sagen oft 'Aber sicherlich ist es besser, agnostisch zu bleiben, für den Fall der Fälle?'. Meiner Meinung nach zeugt das derart von Dummheit und Verwirrung, dass ich mich in der Regel schnell aus dem Gespräch verabschiede anstatt mich einzumischen. (Wenn sich herausstellen sollte, dass ich die ganze Zeit falsch lag und es wirklich einen Gott gibt, und wenn er außerdem durch derartige legalistische Finger-hinter-dem-Rücken-verkreuzen Haarspaltereien beeindruckt werden würde, würde ich mich wahrscheinlich sowieso dagegen entscheiden, ihn zu huldigen.) – Douglas Adams

63rd If only they were properly read, the Bible is the strongest force for atheism in general. - Isaac Asimov

64th disappear if all Christians would have ever known other Christians as "not real Christians," there would be no more Christians. - Anonymous

65th An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan

66th Gods do not kill people. People with Gods kill people. - David Viaene

67th If God were suddenly condemned to live the life that he made your humanity, he would himself . Kill - Alexandre Dumas

68th Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of religious dogma. - Sam Harris

69th I do not believe in God because I do not even think to Ms. Holle. - Clarence Darrow

70th No philosophy, no religion has ever done such a good news as this good news of atheism. - Annie Wood Besant

71st I refuse to believe in a God who is the primary cause of all conflicts on earth, racism, sexism, homophobia and ignorance preaches and then sends me to hell when I say "bad" bin. - Mike Fuhrman

72nd Faith gives you no answers, he cares only that you ask no more questions. - Frater Ravus

73rd The belief that there is no God gives me more room for my belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, jelly and all the other things you can prove myself and make my life the best life that I ever will. - Penn Jillette

74th Absolute faith corrupts just as absolute power but absolute power is corrupt only in the hands of the absolutely faithful. - Anonymous

75th Gods are very fragile things. You can add a spark of science or a pinch of healthy Menschenverstandes zerstört werden. – Chapman Cohen

76. Die Inspiration der Bibel hängt direkt von der Engstirnigkeit des Lesers ab. – Robert G. Ingersoll

77. Leidet eine Person von einer Wahnvorstellung nennt man das Wahnsinn. Leiden viele Personen an einer Wahnvorstellung nennt man das Religion. – Robert Pirsig

78. Ich frage mich, wer den Scheißjob bekommen hat, den Planeten nach den 15000 Sorten von Schmetterlingen und 8800 Sorten von Ameisen zu durchsuchen, die sie dann letztlich an Bord von Noahs Arche genommen haben. Aber wenigstens haben wir diesen magischen Regenbogen für ihre Bemühungen bekommen. – Azura Skye

79. Ich brauche keine Religion, I have a conscience. - Anonymous

80th Man has always needed an explanation for the things he did not understand. And just when none was available, he created one. - Jim Crawford

81st I was always against religion because it requires us to be satisfied to understand the world properly. - Richard Dawkins

82nd What were the fruits of Christianity? Superstition, bigotry and persecution. - James Madison

83rd The characters and events that are depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. - Penn and Teller

84th If God is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end knows what happened and what is to come, as it says in the Bible, why people still pray and believe that to be able to make a difference? - Mark Fairclough

85th The finality of death is the coldest truth, we must confront. Religion is the perfect distraction. - Anonymous

86th Religion is the opium of the people. - Karl Marx

87th If God created the world, who created God? And who created him that God has created? Somewhere in this line must have been something already there. Why can we will not skip the idea of \u200b\u200ba God and get right to the ground? - Ryan Hanson

88th If we assume that God only belongs to a religion and thus excluding all others, should be understood to perdition as a random fact. That should give thinking Christians, if they declare their religious faith, it does not. - Sam Harris

89th Atheists celebrate life while you're sitting in the church and celebrate death. - Anonymous

90th Animals have no gods, but they are too smart. - Ronnie Snow

91st I see that the world less marked by ignorance suffers from a vorgespieltem knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but threaten fanatics and ideologues, the decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake, or has a heathen, heretics or infidels tortured. - Daniel Boorstin

92nd I never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious principles of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or by a personal God. As for today's religion of today, it is a damn fake. Religion is just crap. - Thomas Edison

93rd Fundamentalism of any kind could be probably because of his basic condition be the absence of any intelligent thought, the worst of all weapons of mass destruction. - David J. Constable

94th To be truly free, one must have a free spirit. - Alexander Loutsis

95th Most religions prophecy the end of the world and then work together constantly in mind that these prophecies come true. - Anonymous

96th Jesus was probably brought hardly the greatest sacrifice. He knew that he would rise anyway. - Anonymous

97th Religion is like a virus that changes the behavior of its host so that it can spread further. - Jack Pritchard

98th Religions such as pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. - Anonymous

99th The religion of today is the mythology of tomorrow. Once deemed by many to be true but refuted by the clever. - Steven Crocker

100th The Bible - A Fairytale book of rules brainwashing. Obviously this has helped to ignite war, kill, hate, condemn and discriminate against them. - Anonymous

one hundred and first Is it not enough to see that a garden is beautiful to believe that without it there is also fairies and elves? - Douglas

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