Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes

Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.

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

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.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.

All thinking men are atheists.

There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

I am a daylight 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 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.

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

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.

I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'

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.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.