Top 62 Atheism Church Quotes
#1. The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.
John Courtney Murray
#2. There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
Arthur Miller
#3. The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.
John Locke
#4. It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
Robert Green Ingersoll
#5. Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.
Johnny Hart
#6. If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe.
John F. Kennedy
#7. When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated; and, in the course of a few years, restrictive laws were enacted, both against the Jews and against the heretics.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
#8. My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much larger picture - cosmic warfare, that is, between God and Evil, between God and Satan.
Gerard Verschuuren
#9. The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
Desiderius Erasmus
#10. The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.
Josiah Warren
#11. Atheism and traditional institutions of the Church are the polar sides of the same marasmus: either of them is badly lacking the truth.
Sahara Sanders
#12. The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#13. The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's doctrine. Its verdict against Galileo was rational and just.
Paul Feyerabend
#14. If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.
Isaac Newton
#15. It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church going, hollow-hearted prosperity.5
Francis Chan
#16. Evidence is of no longer consequence when hope enters the fray, and this is
where faith is born - a seemingly abundant commodity certain powerful
organizations feed on fervently, if not lavishly.
Justin Villanueva
#17. Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#19. The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.
Edgar Lee Masters
#20. I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.
Bill Gates
#21. It might be said that religious freedom in the American sense, incorporating the separation of church and state, has been the pivotal concept of the national development of the United States of America.
Joseph Leon Blau
#22. It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.
Christopher Hitchens
#23. My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.
Michael Smith
#24. I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.
Sarah Thornton
#25. They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left, and we're not going to take it anymore.
Pat Robertson
#26. Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.
Voltaire
#27. The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.
Hans Denck
#28. You haven't heard a damn word I've said. See, this is why I can't stand your kinds. You light your candles and mumble your latin spells and pray to a god who isn't there, doesn't care, or is just plain crazy or cruel or both. The world burns and you praise the asshole who either set it or let it.
Rick Yancey
#29. Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.
Charles Caleb Colton
#30. I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.
Steve Wozniak
#31. What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do. - Nathan Phelps
Nathan Phelps
#32. An atheist believes that a hospital
should be built instead of a church.
An atheist believes that deed must
be done instead of prayer said.
An atheist strives for involvement in life
and not escape into death.
He wants disease conquered,
poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#33. Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#34. On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
#35. I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.
Andrew Carnegie
#36. I think there is a puritanical wind that is blowing. I have never seen such a lack of separation between church and state in America, I don't believe in God, but if I did I would say that sex is a Godgiven right. Otherwise it's the end of our species.
Kevin Bacon
#37. After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us.
Sarah Vowell
#39. The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you
Hans Conzelmann
#40. When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.
Roger Williams
#41. The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.
Frank Pavone
#43. How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
Christopher Hitchens
#44. When church and state are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but where they have been confounded together, no tongue nor pen can fully describe the mischiefs that have ensued.
Isaac Backus
#45. I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#46. You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
Margaret Fuller
#47. Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried ... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.
Lucy Stone
#48. Atheism has become a major threat to the church. New Atheists tend to be articulate and belligerent. They are aggressively engaging in "atheist evangelism," determined to stamp out every vestige of belief in God, which they insist is not only "stupid" but "wicked."
Dave Hunt
#49. My uncle Ernie didn't believe in God.
At least that's what he said. But he always
Went to church on Christmas. Which I thought
Seriously compromised his atheism.
Eugene H. Peterson
#50. Christianity rejects tolerance and demands choice, wherein lies its greatest flaw - one of a multitude of contradictions found throughout the Bible and the historical doctrine of the Church.
Aaron B. Powell
#51. The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#52. Let me whisper my belief, entre nous, that of those eminent philosophers who cry out against parsons the loudest, there are not many who have got their knowledge of the church by going thither often.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#53. An all-loving god would surely not damn his children to an eternity of torture simply for being born into a culture that believes in the wrong deity, follows the wrong holy book or attends the wrong type of church services.
Armin Navabi
#54. I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.
Ulysses S. Grant
#55. How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?
John William Draper
#56. For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.
Greg Rucka
#57. But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#58. If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with - while they wait for their death.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#59. Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.
Pope Pius XII
#60. Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing a person to worship against his will violated the principles of both Christianity and civility.
George W. Bush
#61. 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
#62. Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
