Quotes About Atheism

Compared to a decade ago, it's true, almost twice as many Americans say they don't believe in God. But consider the actual numbers: the total of agnostics and atheists has gone from extremely tiny (4 percent in 2007) to very tiny (7 percent in 2014). Those are percentages one otherwise finds in less-developed countries. If that is evidence for U.S. secularization, we are now just about as secular as, oh, Turkey.

Women are much more likely than men to say they're "spiritual," whereas two-thirds of people who call themselves agnostic or atheist are men. So male seculars go elsewhere to satisfy their need to believe in the untrue—for instance, men constitute large majorities of devoted believers in nonexistent conspiracies.

The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A day will come when they will see that they are impoverished under the pretext of being enriched; that, when they are robbed of their souls and of God, both their titles to liberty are stolen from them.

There is no God. And that's His only Commandment.

Atheism is no genius, science stuff.

There's an elemental mystery to the universe: the why of things. Everyone is free to speculate. I speak not for atheism, but against compulsory theism, or compulsory dogma of any kind.

the constancy of God in my life is called by other names, so that I quite rightly pass for an atheist

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

One who does not believe in the self is an atheist. If you believe in yourself, then you are the most religious person on earth.

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most of what you've got here and spread as much influence as you can. I believe that you only live through the influence that you spread, whether that means having a kid or making music.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson have scoffed that "God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance." Atheists like him claim

I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.

Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of the other misdeeds concocted to guard against the sins of understanding and insight into the real world.

Even the atheistic, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins admitted that life appears to have been designed and that an origin one–celled animal has a thousand sets of Encyclopedias full of genetic information in it!

Atheism is partly the result of bad theology, an unpaid bill resulting from failures in depicting God. It is not surprising that many have rejected God when there has been so little to attract them to him. Perhaps they would not reject as readily the God disclosed in Jesus Christ, who is an event of loving relationally and relates readily to the temporal world.