• Legal and social discrimination against atheists in some places may lead some to deny or conceal their atheism due to fears of persecution. A 2006 study by researchers at the University of Minnesota involving a poll of 2,000 households in the United States found atheists to be the most distrusted of minorities, more so than Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians, and other groups. Many of the respondents associated atheism with immorality, including criminal behaviour, extreme materialism, and elitism.^[3] However, the same study also reported that, “The researchers also found acceptance or rejection of atheists is related not only to personal religiosity, but also to one’s exposure to diversity, education and political orientation--with more educated, East and West Coast Americans more accepting of atheists than their Midwestern counterparts.”

                -Source: Demographics of atheism [Wikipedia]

• There exist 36 million Non-Believers in the United States alone

• Openly admitted Non-Believers Bill Gates and Warren Buffet both donated around $30 Billion to charity each

• "Extroardinary claims require extroardinary evidence"

                                                            - Carl Sagan

• People believe and depend on science for just about everything in life (cars, aircraft, microwaves, entertainment, chemical products etc), but when it comes to matters of religion and the universe they ignore science and shove it aside

• Religious minds creates defense mechanisms, so that they reject any evidence against their faiths or beliefs

• People who have dedicated their entire lives to a religious belief will most likely not accept the evidence because they do not want to believe that their entire lives went to waste following a false doctrine

• Primitive men wrote the Bible not an all knowing being

• Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

                                                          -Carl Sagan

• Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

      [Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark]

• It is far better to grasp the universe as it is, than to persist in delusion however satisfying and reassuring

                                                         - Carl Sagan

• God does not play at dice with the universe

                                                      -Albert Einstein

• The Non-Religious community across the globe has the potential of Ranking #1, if everyone begins to open their eyes and thinking for themselves

• "Faith is believing something you know ain't true."

• "I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."  

• "God only exists in your head, just like Santa Clause once did"

• Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money. 

• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. … Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
                            

• I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

• Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

• Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

                                             -Benjamin Disraeli

• Religion. It's given hope in a world torn apart by Religion

• I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours

• Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

• You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

• Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.

• When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

• Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? 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?

• Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

• We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

• There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

• With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

• You keep believing, I'll keep evolving.

• The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion.

• I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.

• I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

• History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god.

• People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs.

• The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

• So you really think that God would plant a bunch of bones in the earth to test your faith? Either you're in denial or God has some serious self-esteem issues.

• Pray to God, fine; but keep rowing to shore.

• The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

• It has served us well, this myth of Christ.

• There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it`s true.

• I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

• I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

• The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus…will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

• Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. 

• Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

• Jews bow their heads, Christians get down on their knees, Muslims get down on their knees with their asses in the air. Atheists hold their heads up proudly and kneel to no one and no thing.

•  If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

• Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family.

• What has been Christianity’s fruits? Superstition, Bigotry and Persecution.

• I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

                                         -Mark Twain