Spiritual Skepticism Quotes

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.

I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have really no religion, for my God, being a spirit shown merely by reason to exist, his properties utterly unknown, is no help to my life. I have nor the parson's comfortable doctrine that every good action has its reward, and every sin is forgiven. My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

I am not into any religions. I have been mostly influenced by Eastern religions - Taoism, the essence of Hinduism and Buddhism. But my belief is not having any beliefs.

There doesn't need to be a God for me.

Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.

I don't need faith. I have experience.

Oh, I don't have any religious beliefs.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco.

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. But while I cannot conceive of such a God, I do recognize the existence of a great universal power - a power which we cannot even begin to comprehend and might as well not attempt to. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know. As a scientist I should like to know, but as a man, I am not so vitally concerned.

I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally.

You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.

At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

I was born Jewish, but I am an atheist. I dont believe in God.

I've talked to biblical cats, and Neanderthals who been here since day one. No one here has even seen the Big Boss. Ever.

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

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

Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?

I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it just came naturally.

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

I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie.