Quotes from David Silverman

Fighting God is fighting a war for freedom of thought, which is the most important freedom we have.

Religion hurts people.

The more, and the louder, we come out today, the easier it will be for those who can't do so until tomorrow.

Ignorance of fact is not evidence for fiction.

Religion is a giant used car, and preachers have proverbial quotas.

Saying "I don't know" is not a flaw. It is a true and valid statement that does not take the totally illogical leap of "I don't know … therefore a god did it." It communicates the simple and reasonable proposition that we need to learn more.

According to Professor Ryan Cragun, churches cost America about $71 billion per year in nonprofit property-tax exemptions alone. That's enough for twenty-eight missions to Mars per year,10 or 1.5 million teachers11 or 1.4 million police officers12 per year.

The stuff in religion that you hate has no less of a basis in the source material than the stuff in religion you love.

We have fought long and hard to escape medieval superstition and I, for one, do not want to go back. —JAMES RANDI

There are more than four former Christians for every convert to Christianity •

Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.