20 Quotes on Atheism by Controversial Authors

Twenty atheist quotations from very smart people on religion and god and a few from me. Don't just take my word for it, hear it from the experts.

1. A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. – Samuel Clemens


2. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins


3.  Philosophy is; questions that may never be answered. Religion is; answers that may never be questioned. – Anonymous


4. Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. – Anonymous


5. What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. – Christopher Hitchens


6. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. Hitchens 3:16 - Christopher Hitchens


7. So what can be done in the wake of a religious free existence? How can a void be filled when it is so engrained in our DNA. I suggest looking for a spirituality that doesn't require suspension of your disbelief. - D. Mitchell Sweatt


8. "Wisdom is the sheath, intellect the sword." - D. Mitchell Sweatt


9. I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs. - Sam Harris


10. The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation. - Sam Harris


11. Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer - Madalyn Murray O'Hair


12. "Why would a god send himself, pray to himself, sacrifice to himself, to make up for the sin he created as punishment for not being humble?" - D. Mitchell Sweatt


13. How do you make Holy water? Boil the hell out of it. – Anonymous


14. Satan did not create evil. Satan did not create Satan, God did. If murder is evil, who is responsible for the murder? @atheistmadness


15. It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. - @stephenfry


16. Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. - Benjamin Franklin


17. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence. - Bertrand Russell


18. Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent. - George Weinberg


19. The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion. - 1797 Treaty of Tripoli


20. If we aren't talking to theists, what is the point? We don't need to save ourselves from ourselves, we did that already. - D. Mitchell Sweat

Logic Versus Religion on Facebook

Debating a post from Atheist Republic on Facebook on the subject of religion.

"Televangelist Creflo Dollar Raises Funds For $65 Million Private Jet"

 

Wade (Name redacted): It's guys like this that don't really know Jesus that keep people like you only seeing the greed of man and not the love of God which will keep you for all eternity living in Hell.

Don't let Satan continue to use the selfishness of man as fodder to fuel your disbelief therefore keeping you in his grasp.

Dennis, you're a thinker, think outside the box past the ignorance, selfishness, hatefulness and greed of man and study the HEART of Jesus not just the words of the New Testament. I feel you get hung up on the wording and miss the whole point of the truth about Jesus.
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Dennis Sweatt: The truth of Jesus is a truth found in a multitude of places without iron age scripture written for a different time in history. The bible, nor Jesus, is necessary for morality.

When you idolize another human being, like Jesus, his message is no longer man's message. Man can, man has, man will. Focusing on a person like Gandhi, MLK, Jesus, Buddha, take your pick defeats the purpose.

Jesus never spoke against slavery. Is that the heart of Jesus?
You can't actually know the heart of Jesus, because that book was written by men, fallible, angry, frightened, driven, lustful, greedy, jealous, also loving, also devout, also misguided men.

Not one, NOT ONE, of those men Ever spoke with Jesus.
Religion is an excuse, religion is a cry for help, religion is a warm blanket and a need to be dissuaded from the fear of death. Quote as much scripture as you like, I can find its equivalents in philosophy, poetry and song dating long before Christianity.

    "Religion creates sheep, philosophy creates shepherds, logic creates lions."- Dennis Mitchell Sweatt

Bible Crazy Comics: 'Noah Talks to God'

Will God listen to Noah's plea to save mankind in this religious cartoon?

Noah calls 'foul' on God's plan to flood the Earth and kill all the people created in his image.

Artwork by Dennis M. Sweatt