"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe"
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
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"I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them."
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
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"As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don't know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don't know, 50,000,000 years of that I'd start to get a little bored."
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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."
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"If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!"
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"There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths."
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"The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability."
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"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."
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"We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid."
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"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
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"An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism."
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"All thinking men are atheists."
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"I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books."
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"When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion."
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"The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God."
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"The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers."
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"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
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