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"Fear prophets ... and those prepared to die for the truth, as a rule make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them"

Umberto Eco through "Brother William" in "The Name of the Rose"

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands"

Friedrich Nietzche

"The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them"

Thomas Alva Edison, "Atheism and Other Essays"

"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."

Bertrand Russell

"I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life -- our desire to go on living -- our dread of coming to an end"

Thomas Alva Edison, New York Times interview

"Atheism is a non-prophet organization"

George Carlin, American Comedian

"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"

Albert Einstein, New York Times Magazine

"I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending"

Isaac Asimov

"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature"

Albert Einstein, The World as I See It

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence"
Bertrand Russell

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms"

Albert Einstein, obituary in New York Times, 19 April 1955

"Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme"
Bernard Katz