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Adams, Clark
"If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!"

Adams, John
"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no [organized] religion in it"

Adams, John Quincy
"If not an absolute atheist, he had no belief in a future existence. All his ideas of obligation or retribution were bounded by the present life."
[President John Quincy Adams on Thomas Jefferson, 1831]

Allen, Woody
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." Woody Allen

"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank."

I don't intend to achieve immortality through my work. I intend to achieve it through not dying.

"To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."

Allen, Dave (Irish Comedian)
"Goodnight, thank you, and may your god go with you"
[at the end of all of his shows]

Anonymous
"All Gods were immortal."

"If the Bible proves that God exists then
comic books prove the existence of Superman."
[Seen on the #Atheism IRC]

"I've gone into thousands of [fortune teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her."
[NYC detective]

"God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom."

"Only the fool says in his heart: There is no god -- The wise man says it to the world"

"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned"

"Consider the ignorance of the average fundamentalist. Then realize that by definition fully half of them must be even dumber than that."

"If, as they say, God spanked this town
For being much too frisky,
Why did He burn His churches down
And save Hotaling's Whiskey?".........
[Poem on 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, in which the city's largest whiskey distillery was left unscathed]

"If God doesn't like the way I live, Let him tell me, not you."

"There are none more ignorant and useless, than they that seek answers on their knees, with their eyes closed."

"Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species represented changes through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeezing one's eyes shut and wailing 'does not!'"

"Several thousand years ago, a small tribe of ignorant near-savages wrote various collections of myths, wild tales, lies, and gibberish. Over the centuries, these stories were embroidered, garbled, mutilated, and torn into small pieces that were then repeatedly shuffled. Finally, this material was badly translated into several languages successively. The resultant text, creationists feel, is the best guide to this complex and technical subject."

Anthony, Susan B.
"What you should say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it"
[Susan B. Anthony, _Susan B. Anthony: a Biography_,
by Kathleen Barry, New York University Press, 1988, p.310]

"I was born a heretic. I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."

Asimov, Isaac
"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."

"Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition."

"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."

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