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Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are serviley crouched. 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, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind faith.

—Thomas Jefferson
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

—Arthur C. Clarke
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?

—Epicurus
To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

—Dan Barker
Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!' If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it.

—Dan Barker
You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love," they will claim that *you* are taking things out of context!

—Dan Barker
It is God's will that we seek wisdom and receive understanding, that we accept our worthiness of love, health, and prosperity, and that we manifest those qualities in our lives.

—Jonathan Van Voorhees (01/09/2009)
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr’s death will send them straight to heaven.

—Richard Dawkins
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

—Mark Twain
Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.

—Karl Marx
War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

—Laurence Overmire
Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith.... We need believing people.

—Adolf Hitler (26/04/1933)
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.

—Mahatma Gandhi
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have. I merely give robust expression to views about the cosmos and morality with which you happen to disagree. You interpret that as ‘intolerance’ because of the weirdly privileged status of religion, which expects to get a free ride and not have to defend itself. If I wrote a book called The Socialist Delusion or The Monetarist Delusion, you would never use a word like intolerance. But The God Delusion sounds automatically intolerant. Why? What’s the difference? I have a (you might say fanatical) desire for people to use their own minds and make their own choices, based upon publicly available evidence. Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private ‘revelation’. There is a huge difference.

—Richard Dawkins
Those undecided needn't have faith to be free
And those misguided, there was a plan for them to be.
Now you got both sides claiming killing in God's name
But God is nowhere to be found, conveniently.

—Eddie Vedder
Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future; but faith is having the courage to dance to it today!

—Unknown
You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

—Anne Lamott
Religion... comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion.

—Sigmund Freud
I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A", "B", "C" and "D". Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?

—Barry Goldwater
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

—Eric Hoffer

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