Arthur C. Clarke Quotes About Atheism
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Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.
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If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
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It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
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Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
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Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.
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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
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Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?
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