If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators; but we must not forget that the religion is still out there.

Scriptures may have grains of historical truth within them, but there is also ample hyperbole, speculation and mythology.

Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes ofa being that does not exist.

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.

Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

Speaking to a 'non-theist', 'How do you what you don't believe in if you have never read the Bible?'".

Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.

Atheists determine there is no God based on their own intellect. I've determined there is a God based on His intellect.

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.