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If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody Allen
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard Dawkins
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For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin
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The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
Steven Weinberg
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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin
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You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
Blaise Pascal
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Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.
George Carlin
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Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
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In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.
Mark Twain
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God
Thomas Jefferson
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Richard Burton
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
Mark Twain
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Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
George Carlin
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Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
Voltaire
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.
Isaac Asimov
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If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
Voltaire
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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
George Orwell

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
Gloria Steinem
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw
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The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
Benjamin Franklin
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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.
Ricky Gervais
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George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.