#atheism

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#existentialism #follow-your-bliss #self-actualization #self-determination #life

To hate man and love god seems to be the sum of all creeds. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#religion #truth #love

Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them. ↗

— Emil A. Zafirov

#evolution #god #human #religion #religion

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#freethinking #religion #science #religion

Every time the sky cries, it is because an angel has died... Lucifer started a war in Heaven, and it persists even now. So if God cannot keep his angels under control, what makes you believe that he can keep humanity under control? ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#fantasy #god #human-nature #nature

I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#stupidity #nature

Is apathy not the nature of God? ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#god #nature

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#organized-religion #paradox #religion #religion

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion. ↗

— Martin Amis

#famines #god #humans #plagues #problem-of-evil

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#decency #humanism #religion #religion