Charles Bradlaugh Quotes

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god. Why are you in such a hurry to make up your mind? Why not simply wait until there is compelling evidence?

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist, or an idealist; a Christian, or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last.

There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.

I'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist.

I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

As I’ve said, I’ve never believed in God, which technically makes me an atheist (since the prefix “a” means “not” or “without”). But I have problems with the word “atheism.” It defines what someone is not rather than what someone is. It would be like calling me an a-instrumentalist for Bad Religion rather than the band’s singer. Defining yourself as against something says very little about what you are for.

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

No, I'm not religious. At all. I'm an atheist.

I am a daylight atheist.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.