C. S. Lewis Quotes

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists - like the painting experts hated the painter - hate God because He does exist.

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic Church. I could not possibly know that I disagreed with religion unless I knew what I was disagreeing with.

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.

I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.

I'm not a religious person at all.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.