“This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.”
- John Adams

“The world holds two classes of men – intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.”
- Abu Ala Al-Maari

“So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk.”
- Thomas Alva Edison

“I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.”
- Bertrand Russell

“I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.”
- Thomas Alva Edison

“Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.”
- Robert G. Ingersoll

“The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration–courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.”
- H. L. Mencken”.

Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.” – Gene Roddenberry”Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.”
- Voltaire”

The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically refused to believe in a god, to heaven.”
- Nicholas Yee”

God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.”
- Carl Sagan

“Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“I don’t see any god up here” – Yuri Gagarin – first man in space, while in space.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

Heaven will be a great place as long as you keep the christians out.
- G. Janus

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet”
–Napoleon Bonaparte

“Hence today I believe I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator”
–Adolph Hitler

“I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job.”
–George W. Bush

“Let’s face it; God has an ego problem, why do we always have to worship him? ”
- Bill Maher

“I don’t know anyone less Jesus like than Christians.”
- Bill Maher

“I would never want to be the member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.”
- George Carlin”

“I have as much authority as the pope, I just don’t have as many people that believe it.”
-George Carlin

“One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.”
- Robert Heinlein

If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve its own interests.
-Baron d’Holbach

“I’d rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
-Gerry Spencer

Religion has actually 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 special list of ten things he does not want you to do.. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time! ..But He loves you.
-George Carlin

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
Faith is believing in that which I know ain’t so.
-Mark Twain

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.
-Robert Green Ingersoll

All thinking men are atheists.
-Ernest Hemmingway

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
-Mohandas Gandhi

Born again?! No, I’m not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
-Dennis Miller

“Without religion, we’d have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
-Stephen Weinberg

“Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely 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 blindfolded fear. ”
-Thomas Jefferson

“To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”

“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”

“There is not enough love and kindness in the world to give any of it away to imaginary beings.”

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

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
- Epicurus

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

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
- Robert Frost

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
- Art Hoppe

“How do I know the Bible isn’t the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand…considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!”
- Bill Hicks

“I’m proud to be an atheist – it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.”
“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
- Mark Twain

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beutiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
- Douglas Adams

“We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beutiful and his children smart.”
- H.L. Mencken

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

“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”
-Huang Po