Litt passende lesestoff for de her som behersker engelsk:
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
— Epicurus
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"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
"I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it."
— Edith Sitwell
"I refuse to believe in a god that would send me to hell just for not believing in him."
— Bob Snuka
"Doesn't it bother you that you put more logical thought into choosing a car than you do in choosing a god?
— Anonym
"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window"
— Stephen King
"Praying is like a rocking chair-- it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere"
— Gypsy Rose Lee
"Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have."
— Penn Jillette
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365 not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers were given. Satan - 10"
— Anonym
"Religion is unusual among divisible labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might had to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic."
— Richard Dawkins
"Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions."
— Frater Ravus