Salman Rushdie Quotes

If there is no God, then I am God.

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.

Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist.

If God exists, there's no way he's French

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer." Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered. "Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master. "So you are an atheist?" "Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.

When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

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.

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

[I'm] almost positive there is no God.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is.

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.