Non-Religious Perspective Quotes

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible

I don't really consider myself religious. I view it more as a relationship. And if anyone thinks that's weird, then okay.

Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

I think I'd really like to live in Israel. Even for someone like myself who is not that into religion, you go to Israel, and it's breathtaking in a lot of ways.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven.

I have never been religious, but I've seen the strength of it.