Salman Rushdie Quotes

I'm not a religious person at all.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

I don't believe in God.

I don't believe in God.

I do not have, and never had, any interest in either the Bible or religion.

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

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

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

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

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

I'm not a religious person.

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

I'm a stone-cold atheist.

Many good people practice no faith at all.

I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.

I never believed in God, and I will never believe in it.

When it comes right down to it, no, we're not religious at all.

I am an absolute atheist.

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

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

I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

I don't believe in God. So I'm a non-believer in the non-visible. I'm a believer in us; in humans.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.