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  Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

  Bill Gates

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Efficiency
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  There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

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  Tags in Worship, Agnosticism Atheism, Freedom
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  I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

  Richard Dawkins

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  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 blind-folded fear.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Fear, God, Inspirational, Religion

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Questions
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  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 Alva Edison

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Immortality, Heaven, Hell

• Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in God, Religion

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism

• 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

  Topics in God

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Evil

• There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Love, Religion

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• I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

  Brad Pitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

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• I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Art, Life

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Creativity

• When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Topics in Belief, Religion

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Faith

• Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Heaven

• I always like a dog so long as he isn’t spelled backward.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• I have known many good people who did not believe in God. But I have never known a human being who was good who did not believe in people. [language slightly modified]

  John Lovejoy Elliott

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Humanism, Good

• Do not pass by my epitaph, traveler.
  But having stopped, listen and learn, then go your way.
  There is no boat in Hades, no ferryman Charon,
  No caretaker Aiakos, no dog Cerberus.
  All we who are dead below
  Have become bones and ashes, but nothing else.
  I have spoken to you honestly, go on, traveler,
  Lest even while dead I seem loquacious to you.

  Roman military tombstones

  Topics in Death

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• Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable … and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct some thing to take its place.

  Julian Huxley

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Humanism

• I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

  Clarence Darrow

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• As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

  Protagoras

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• Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Beauty, Belief, Religion

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism

• We have a need for what I would call “the transcendent” or “the numinous” or even “the ecstatic,” which comes out in love and music, poetry, and landscape. I wouldn’t trust anyone who didn’t respond to things of that sort. But I think the cultural task is to separate those impulses and those needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Topics in Religion

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