Steve Allan - drive to atheism

It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty.

2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt

Steve Allan - drive to atheism

Zach Galifianakis

Sometimes, I like to read the bible in public and yell out, “Oh Bullshit!

Zach Galifianakis

Rowan Atkinson

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas – even if they are sincerely held beliefs – is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

Rowan Atkinson

Albert Einstein

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Albert Einstein

Bertrand Russell

“Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live”

― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Bertrand Russell

Edith Sitwell

 

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

- Edith Sitwell

 

 

Edith Sitwell

Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

 

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet

-  Napoleon Bonaparte 

 

 

 

Napoleon Bonaparte

Atheism Quotes Relating to Science

 

 

• “I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.” – Sir Isaac Newton

• A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. – Sir Francis Bacon 
  

• God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. – Sir Francis Bacon 
  

• “The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it….It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.” – Sir Francis Bacon, his essay Of Atheism

• “In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views.” - Albert Einstein 
  

• “The Seventh Judicial Circuit of the Court of Appeals of the United States held that atheism is a religion. Therefore, it cannot be promoted by a public school. Currently, public schools are often unwittingly promoting atheism through a dogmatic and uncritical teaching of materialistic theories of origins.” - John Calvert, Intelligent Design leader

Atheism Quotes Relating to Science

Thomas Edison

 

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk.

- Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison