“Functionally the soul is a mechanism for manipulation. It is a pretend reward for following the rules and it’s a means to punish those who seemingly don’t follow the rules; it gives a false sense of justice for the evil in the world. There is no consistency, it needs to be exactly that think that will sell religion and that is a of Christianity.”
– Don Baker
“I’ve spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as bleak. Namely, that it is a meaningless place devoid of deity.”
– Phillip Adams
“I don’t know how we can fix a world where people have been so convinced that they are doing the right thing out of compassion and love and trying to help people, when it is absolutely destructive.”
– Matt Dillahunty
“Although I’m an atheist, I don’t fear death more than, say, sharing a roon in a detox center with a sobbing Rush Limbaugh…”
– Berkeley Brethead
“I was brought up Christian then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist.”
– Alejandro Amenabar
“I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least on of the latest products of 3,000 million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of man’s side in a trance.”
– David Attenborough