My favorite quotes

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able to?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”
—Epicurus (Greek philosopher, BC 341-270)


“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
—Edward Gibbon


“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
—Douglas Adams


“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
—Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion


“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
—Richard Dawkins


“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
—George Bernard Shaw


“There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.”
—Richard Dawkins


“When you realize why you call Zeus a myth, you’ll understand why I don’t believe in your God.”
—Seen on a T-shirt.


“Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
—George Carlin.


“God: Santa Claus for adults!”
—Saurabh Mangal.

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