Neil deGrasse Tyson on why religion should stay out of classrooms

Look around you, discover the Majesty of Atheism

Richard Dawkins: Insurance Policy: Two Eggs, One Survivor

Carl Sagan on "God" and "gods"

Andy Rooney

The Totalitarian God by Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens drops the hammer

Instruction Manual for Life [cc]

Sam Harris

"In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs."
-Sam Harris

Doug Stanhope and Daniel Dennett

“Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.”
-Daniel Dennett

Christopher Hitchens

""Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse."
-Christopher Hitchens

Steven Weinberg and Science

"They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it’s a good thing."
-Steven Weinberg

Nietzsche and Einstein

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Thomas Hobbes and the Pope

"The Papacy is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."
-Thomas Hobbes

Ambrose Bierce

"Faith: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
-Ambrose Bierce.

Tim Minchin and Pascal

"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."
- Blaise Pascal

Lenny Bruce and two religions

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."
-Lenny Bruce

Atheism

Carl Sagan

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
-Carl Sagan

Stephen Fry and Arthur Clark

"I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent."
-Arthur C. Clark

Jon Stewart and Franklin

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason"
-Benjamin Franklin

Calendar and Roddenberry

"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."
- Gene Roddenberry

John Adams and Santayana

"The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion."
-John Adams

Justin Brown and Star Wars

"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished..."
-Justin Brown

Bertrand Russell

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence."
-Bertrand Russell

Jefferson and Sagan

"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe."
-Carl Sagan

A post

"Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church"
-Unknown

Atheism's one commandment...

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart"
- H. L. Mencken

Religion vs. Science

"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."
- Steven Weinberg

Jesus and Religion

"Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people."
- Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney