#heist

I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#praying #jesus

But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#atheist #god #noremorse #liberty

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#atheist

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#atheist

He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill. ↗

— Karen Chance

#pritkin #pythia #atheist

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#the-poor #atheist

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#atheist #god #noremorse #atheist

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#cats #coming-out #organization #atheist

You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway. ↗

— Ricky Gervais

#atheism #be-nice #hell #why-i-m-an-atheist #atheist

You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#atheism #atheist