Atheism Argument Quotes

#1. There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

James K. Morrow

#2. Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes our
beliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.

Greta Christina

#3. God might not be dead, but he's sure as hell missing in action.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#4. The difference between an atheist and a person of faith? One additional religion in the crazy column. You believe that all religions except yours are crazy. I believe that all religions including yours are crazy.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#5. And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.

Kahlil Gibran

#6. If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

Robert F. Almeder

#7. Mr. Dawkins' assertions are self-refuting- ie. Actual infinity vs. potential infinity easily makes the most reasonable argument for theism and a Deity. Now, the argument for the Creator God of Christianity requires much more time, energy, and logical effort."


~R. Alan Woods [2007]

R. Alan Woods

#8. Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#10. Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.

Alister E. McGrath

#11. A man can suffocate on courtesy.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.

G. Edward Griffin

#13. I am not an atheist. I simply believe in a god different from yours

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#14. When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

Edward Abbey

#15. You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

Giordano Bruno

#16. I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless. I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's true.

Richard Dawkins

#17. We're seeing that God's word and His principles do work. They may not work overnight but they are powerful and when we apply them in the way He shows us to apply them in life then we're going to see positive consequences.

Alex Kendrick

#18. I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic Church. I could not possibly know that I disagreed with religion unless I knew what I was disagreeing with.

Amber Heard

#19. He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but simply by saying that they are naive.

Walter J. Moore

#20. Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.

Dan Barker

#21. As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

Albert Camus

#22. Tolerance is NOT acceptance. And that's the problem with ALL religion. It teaches acceptance only for those who believe exactly as you do, and at best, tolerance for the rest of us "sinners." Sorry. Not acceptable.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#23. I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

Christopher Hitchens

#24. I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet.

Linus Pauling

#25. It was as though the great black bird which had all the night nested the egg of the earth lifted its wings and let light under and then with gigantic thrust of pinion flew upwards and it was day.

Glendon Swarthout

#26. However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.

Richard Dawkins

#27. Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Aristophanes

#28. The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.

John E. Jones III

#29. Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

Kenneth Clark

#30. For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.

Leslea Tash

#31. Follow the argument wherever it leads.

Socrates

#32. People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

Kurt Vonnegut