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George Carlin
"The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument."

"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. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!"

"Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet and they have to touch it to be sure."

"And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty. The part I like the best? "All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again." That's because there is no Humpty Dumpty, and there is no God. None, not one, no God, never was."
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Christopher Hitchens
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."

"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."

"Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, open-mindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake."

"To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation-is that good for the world?"

"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."

"I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me."

"Organised religion is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children."

"The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species."

"Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer."

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion."

"Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way."

"I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful."

"...if that were true it would mean that I had an eternal, supervising parent who would never die and let me get on with my life, let me grow up, keep me under surveillance and supervision every minute of my life and constantly ask me to be thanking and praising him. I think that would be like living in North Korea."

"The atheist position is the following—most of the time: It may not be said that there is no God; it may be said there is no reason to think there is one."
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Napoleon Bonaparte
"All religions have been made by men."

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

"Imagination rules the world."

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
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Thomas Jefferson
"The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error."

"In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty."

"It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong."

"Religion is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."

"Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythology."

"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus."
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Benjamin Franklin
"Lighthouses are more useful than churches."

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
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David Brooks
"To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy."
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Richard Jeni
"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."
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Richard Dawkins
"I respect you too much as a person to respect your ridiculous beliefs."

"Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off."

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
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H. L. Mencken
"Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."
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Isaac Asimov
"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."

"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."

"Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition."

"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."

"There is a cult of ignorance in the US and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
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Thomas Paine
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."

"Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities."

"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."

"The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy."

"It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes."

"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."

"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

"Christianity is nothing more than a mockery of sun worship."
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Karl Marx
"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."
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Neil deGrasse Tyson"
(Some) words that make questions may not be questions at all."
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Other/Anonymous
"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency"
- Albert Ellis

"Playing God? No, we're playing Science."
- Some asshole on YouTube

"On the first day, man created God."

"The downfall of this world will be organised religion, it must be treated like a plague if we are to save it."
- Winston Ellis (the evil godless communist founder of this group)

"Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church."

"By the power of truth I, while living, have conquered the universe."

"I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs."
- Johann Hari

"Nonsense! The earth was created about 6000 years ago by a lazy man with a large beard who quit after 6 days because he was already tired, then he rested for a day and buggered off. And he put the dinosaur fossils here to test out faith."

"FacePsalm 1:1 The fool hath said in his BRAIN there is a God."

"One's knowledge cannot go beyond one's experience."
(common Asura phrase)

"Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist."
- Academician Prokhor Zakharov

"The good will do the best they can. The worst will do the worst they can. But if you want to make good people do wicked things you'll need religion.