Atheist Quotes

“Religion is a conspiracy theory.

"God did it" is no different than "the lizard aliens did it."

Like religion, conspiracy theories are popular among the ignorant, because they offer simplistic answers to difficult questions.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I unbaptized myself," Liam continued, unable to resist the temptation to wind up his brother. "Now I'm a free agent. No hell-fire. No threat of eternal damnation. No church on Sunday. No Hail Marys or Our Fathers. And no guilt. It's very liberating.”
― Sara Desai, The Dating Plan

“God save this country, and I am an atheist”
― Dido Stargaze

“An atheist would not stand against any religion or worships but they rather would help you understand the science behind it”
― Dido Stargaze

“atheist: (n.) one who dislikes people who believe in God.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“From what I’ve seen, the world is deeply, profoundly broken (even my atheist friends allow this), and every human I’ve ever gotten to know turns out to have issues. We’re inconsistent, in certain circumstances untrustworthy, and we don’t even live up to our own standards, let alone God’s.”
― Brant Hansen, Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something

“Respecting an individual's right to their dearly held beliefs in no way implies respect for those beliefs. I reserve the right to mock, criticize, second-guess or summarily dismiss as I see fit.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“Good Little Gods (The Sonnet)

A good person once said, to turn the other cheek.
I ain't him, I don't approve of his kind of naivety.
Hurt me all you want, I may still keep quiet but,
Lay a finger on my loved ones, 'n you are history.
Someone once ordered, sacrifice your child for me,
And a spineless patriarch rushed to obey it all.
If god commands to slaughter someone I love,
That stoneage nitwit will return without his balls.
Someone said, strike your partner if she denies coitus,
To which countless bugs still remain obedient.
I ask that moron of a god to come 'n say it to me,
And he won't be left man enough to even get a head.
Humankind ain't no slave to no prehistoric lords.
We may spare them only if they're good little gods.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Not reading, it might be said, was the highest expression of atheism, or at least of atheism as he conceived of it. If you don't believe in God, how do you believe in a fucking book?”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“When superstitious Bronze Age primitives invented God, they gave him every single human character flaw they had, because they simply projected their own uneducated thoughts onto their imaginary God.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Atheism Memes: 40 Reasons Why I'm An Atheist

“Praise God, never the wind- for the wind may answer”
― Francesco Dimitri, Never the Wind

“The secular version of becoming godlike: be excellent. Why? Because people imagine gods as vastly excelled version of themselves. The more excellent, the more god.”
― Thomas Vato

“Religion is the opposite of freedom. God is a dictator.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Apocalypse 2020: How Putin destroyed America

“I didn't miss a day in Texas that I didn't ask for guidance and strength; and this fervently and in secret. That last year I had been a praying gun-toter, who had sworn to shoot to kill; and how I dwelt on the words courage and strength; one needed physical strength for gun-playing and sticks. Now I was a praying atheist.”
― Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years

“EVAN. Have you no faith?
MELISSA. Of course not. I'm an atheist.”
― Peter Fenton

“This had become the fertile soil that we all tilled to create a field that fit the perfect conditions for the rise of New Atheism. Religious tolerance has become so rampant that truth was forsaken for subjectivity. There should be no surprise then that the New Atheist Apocalypse should arise as Horsemen, like Nazgul, to prevent the ring bearer from reaching Mount Doom.”
― L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism

“A lot of folk who have lost faith in God it's a very healthy thing because the God they lost faith in was probably an idol anyway. The challenge becomes are you still open enough and vulnerable enough in your soul, to be open to something bigger than you thats connected to a love and justice, to an honesty, decency, and integrity. Secular folk will have their language for it, Jewish brothers and sisters have their language, Islamic brothers and sisters will have their language, and some of us will still put Jesus at the center of it.”
― Cornel West

“Legalism has killed more faith than doubt ever has.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“So God exist so what?
So he doesn't exist so what?
It really doesn't matter as long you don't go as abusive parent and start forcing your beliefs onto others.”
― Deyth Banger, God Who Cares?

“Humankind ain't no slave to no prehistoric lords.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“I started to doubt my belief in a god and instead began to believe in myself.”
― Patrick R.F. Blakley, Drummond: Learning to find himself in the music

“Atheists see the spiritual as little more than quacks peddling shame. Theists see physics as trite parlor games.”
― Debra Gavant

“Praying deceives us into thinking that we are doing something about what we are praying for.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“God, the most profitable and successful business making ideas for centuries.”
― Dido Stargaze

“I don’t think that it’s my belief in God that bothers you. I think that it’s your lack of belief.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some find comfort in supernatural ideas but I find comfort in cats.”
― Mary E. R. White

“Using scripture to decode morality is like using the abacus to code iOS.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“I know in the present circumstances my faith in God would have made my life easier, my burden lighter, and my disbelief in Him has turned all the circumstances too dry, and the situation may assume too harsh a shape. A little bit of mysticism can make it poetical. But I do not want the help of any intoxication to meet my fate. I am a realist. I have been trying to overpower the instinct in me by the help of reason. I have not always been successful in achieving this end. But man's duty is to try and endeavour, success depends upon chance and environments.”
― Bhagat Singh, Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse

“God is the fact that all of our efforts will never fictionalize.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough