Below is my continuing list of quotes from The Atheist’s Bible: An Illustrious Collection of Irreverent Thoughts. Next up, the book of Thomas Pain.

Enjoy…TPO

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it. ~Bertrand Russell
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. ~George Santayana
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. ~Bertrand Russell
Religions are the great fairy-tales of the conscience. ~George Santayana
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ~Bertrand Russell
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. ~George Santayana
You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think the worst you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. ~Woody Allen
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. ~Bertrand Russell
I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. ~Woody Allen

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