BellaOnline Forums Religion and Spirituality Atheist Poll: Best Atheist Quotes

Now that we've finally made it all the way through the atheist quote alphabet, I thought it might be fun to vote on which are the best. As always, you're welcome to reply with your own favorites when voting.

Best Serious Atheist Quote single choice
	Religion provides the solace for the turmoil that it creates.
	There is in every village a torch: the schoolmaster -- and an extinguisher: the parson.
	You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
	The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
	Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
	Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
	Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
	Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.
	A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
	Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.
Votes accepted starting: 05/11/07 11:52 PM You must vote before you can view the results of this poll.

Best Amusing Atheist Quote single choice
	He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
	Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
	Praying is like a rocking chair -- it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
	I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
	We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
	When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
	A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
	For Lent I gave up religion.
	Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
	Who needs Satan when you have a God like this?
Votes accepted starting: 05/12/07 12:03 AM You must vote before you can view the results of this poll.

Best Skeptic Quote single choice
	If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
	Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.
	The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
	Skepticism is the highest duty, and blind faith the one impardonable sin.
	The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
	The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble across a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it representative of a whole class.
	There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
	The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
	That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
	What the mind doesn’t understand it worships or fears.
Votes accepted starting: 05/12/07 12:13 AM You must vote before you can view the results of this poll.

God is dead.
Nitzsche
Nitzsche is dead.
God

That's my favorite.

I'm glad to see you appreciate the work of Nietzsche. My favorite Nietzsche quotes include the following:

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."

"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."

"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

"Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life."

Only 6 votes so far? Come on, guys, at least vote for your favorite amusing one. It'll only take a minute.

I voted -- but had a hard time choosing!

Another quote - "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." (Think, God...)