Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.

I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth, religion, and rituals.

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the source of negativities.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so.

Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.

I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless. I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's true.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.

Your so-called religions have made you very tense. Because they have created guilt in you. My effort here is to help you get rid of all guilt and all fear. I would like to tell you: there is no hell and no heaven. So don't be afraid of hell and don't be greedy for heaven. All that exists is this moment. You can make this moment a hell or a heaven - that certainly is possible - but there is no heaven or hell somewhere else. Hell is when you are all tense, and heaven is when you are all relaxed. Total relaxation is paradise.

Without religion, also there is a way, it could be this way, through education, through scientific findings, then you get conviction. Not necessarily really love other, but for their own interest they are showing love, compassion to other like that.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

Heaven would be hell to me without Christ.

In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.

What does an atheist scream when they come?

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

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.