Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes

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

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

I'm a stone-cold atheist.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

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.

As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”). But I have problems with the word “atheism.” It defines what someone is not rather than what someone is. It would be like calling me an a-instrumentalist for Bad Religion rather than the band’s singer. Defining yourself as against something says very little about what you are for.

No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

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

I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.

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

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

What does an atheist scream when they come?

I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.

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'

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, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

I'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist.

I'm not a religious person at all.

I've got no religious beliefs at all.

I don't believe in God.