Ross Douthat Quotes

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Religion is all bunk.

I'm not really into religion.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

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

Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

God doesn't believe in atheists.

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

I call myself a naturalist as opposed to an atheist, but there are different styles. Some people just like to be close to nature. And some people actually worship nature, which is too wishy-washy because - like a lot of religious believers - they don't depend on facts.

I don't think you need religion.

Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

I was never religious.

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

There's been so much rhetoric in the past decade about how important religion is to being a good person, for people to say they don't believe in God.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Everybody has a different definition of God. When people say, 'Do you believe?' I think they mean the Christian God. There are a lot of gods, so I think they cancel each other out.

I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

I think that all the powerful religions are pretty much the same. People like to pretend they are very different, but they are not. They are really about believing in something bigger than yourself, something that's unseen, and about having some faith.

I don't believe in the concept of religion.

I still can't decide which is silliest; a person believing in a God who 'isn't there,' or a person offended by a God whom he doesn't believe exists.

I knew at a very young age that I didn't really buy the whole God gamut.

I am an absolute atheist.