Atheist Wisdom Cookie

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. ~George Bernard Shaw

Faith means not wanting to know what is true. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
     
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. ~Gene Roddenberry

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - Isaac Asimov

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. ~Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ~Seneca the Younger

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. ~Anonymous

Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends. ~Woody Allen

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. ~Isaac Asimov

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. ~Edward Abbey

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. ~Steven Weinberg

I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. ~Doug McLeod