From The Atheist Blogger. I knew less than half of them, and there are many gems in there.
Some of my favorites:
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
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. - Doug McLeod
Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going? - Anonymous
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
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. - Christopher Hitchens
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. - George W. Foote
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence. - Bertrand Russell
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. - Robert A Heinlein
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave. - William Drummond
Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived. - Isaac Asimov
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. - Sam Harris
I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I’m ‘bad’. - Mike Fuhrman
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. - Frater Ravus
Man has always required an explanation for all of those things in the world he did not understand. If an explanation was not available, he created one. - Jim Crawford
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - Richard Dawkins
If we expect God to subscribe to one religion at the exclusion of all the others, then we should expect damnation as a matter of chance. This should give Christians pause when expounding their religious beliefs, but it does not. - Sam Harris
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“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”
Yes! Susie B was a smart cookie.
“Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. - Frater Ravus”
All too true!!!
When one embraces utter and certain faith, they stop questioning things and thinking for them self. Either Dawkins or Hitchens said that on the Real Time with Bill Mahr, as they were each on recently. I don’t want to steal their thunder!!
My favorite here is the Heinlein one — which is all too true.
I also found the one about the lightning rod in a church hilarious.