The Atheist Blogger

Most of my readers will probably remember my “101 Atheist Quotes” article, which despite being one of the first articles I wrote, is also the most popular (although to be honest I think being featured on the front page of Digg might have helped). If you are a Christian reader, or you just want a theist take on the article, then head over to “101 Christian Quotes on Faith, Reason, Unbelief, and Atheism“.

My personal favourites:

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.” – So true, and an argument frequently used by atheists to approximate their view with not having words for “not believing in fairies”.

“The atheist can’t find God for the same reason that a thief can’t find a police officer” – Perhaps, but you really think God would have the common decency to show up anyway…

“If God does not exist, everything is permissible” – Precisely why the evolution of human morality is such a great tool for the human race. We don’t need Gods to show us what is wrong and what is right…we can work it our for ourselves over time.

“The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century” – Lucky that facts surrounding Evolution stayed eh? Oh, and of course the facts that we discovered in the 20th century kinda made up for the ones we lost in the 19th…

“No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.” – I like this one; it’s a sort of Christian version of the “There are no atheists in foxholes argument”, and it fails for all the same reasons. How exactly does the author know the final thoughts of a dying person? Puzzling.

“Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.” – Evil Lord Zenu, Transubstantiation…yup, this quote is dead accurate in the latter part. Unfortunately reason is by far the better guide…it explains things that actually exist in reality.