“Prophecy functions on a very long-term basis and has, as one of its properties, a characteristic which is the very source of the strength of all religions: the impossibility of proof.”
-Albert Camus-French Writer-Nobel Prize in Literature (1957)

"At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) author

"Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune."
Aristotle

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
Eric Hoffer

"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Woody Allen

"Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?"
-Arthur C. Clarke, author

Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson , U.S. President, author, scientist, architect, educator, and diplomat

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
-Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father, author, and inventor

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
-Thomas Edison, American inventor

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist

Religions are all alike & shy; founded upon fables and mythologies.
-Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President, author, scientist, architect, educator, and diplomat
 
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
-Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
-Sigmund Freud, Austrian-born psychologist

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
-Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President, author, scientist, architect, educator, and diplomat

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would neither be created nor destroyed it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?
-Stephen Hawking, English scientist

 I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
-Billy Joel, American musician

Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.
-Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President, author, scientist, architect, educator, and diplomat

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
-Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.
-James Madison, U.S. President

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality."
George Bernard Shaw

All thinking men are atheists.
-Ernest Hemingway, American author

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
Thomas Jefferson