Reasonable Doubt

HERE I STAND

“There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.”
-Seth McFarlane

“I am an atheist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It’s not enough to say that I don’t believe in god. I actually regard the system as distressing. I am offended by some of the things in the bible and the koran and I refute them.”
-Emma Thompson

"I am not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance."

-John Stewart

“It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.”
-Ricky Gervais

If all atheists would come out of the closet, perhaps we

could end being governed

by fairy tales.

“I am not religious. I am an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.”
-Daniel Radcliffe

“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”
-Christopher Hitchens

“I am an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there is nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other.”
-Katharine Hepburn

"It never really occurred to me to believe in god."

-Sir David Attenborough

“I believe in you and me. I believe in nature, the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see and there is real evidence for. But I don’t believe in a personal god to whom I look for comfort.”
-Frank Sinatra

“Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don’t push my atheism on anyone else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion.”
-Andy Rooney

“For several years I maintained public relations with the almighty. But privately I ceased to associate with him.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre

"I was brought up as an atheist and I have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am confounded by being told I need god, jesus, or a clergyman to help me do so."

-Nigella Lawson

We are firm believers that we don't need god in order to be a good person and do positive things for others.

"I'm not really an atheist so much as I am an anti-theist. I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful."

-Christopher Hitchens

"When people tell me that god has blessed me with the gift of music, you're damned right I get offended. I did not practice for hours a day for 18 years to have my success attributed to a myth."

-Josh Groban

Atheism Defined
American Atheists
Pew Research Center: Facts About Atheists
Top Atheists in the World Today
Freedom From Religion

Celebrities Who Don't Believe in God
Patheos: The Free Thinker

New Yorker: Americans and Atheism

Infidels: The Secular Web
American Humanist Association
Richard Dawkins Foundation

DARE TO DOUBT
HERE I STAND
SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE

GOD'S LOYAL OPPOSITION

“The question the missionaries asked me when they first arrived at my door really stuck in my head: Did I believe that god loved me with all his heart? I wasn't exactly sure how I felt about that question. If they'd asked me, Do you feel that god loves you with all his heart? Well, that would have been much different, and I think I would have instantly answered, "Yes, I feel it all the time. I feel god's love when I'm hurt and confused, and I feel consoled and cared for. I take shelter in god's love when I don't understand why tragedy hits, and I feel god's love when I look with gratitude at all the beauty I see." But since they asked me that question with the word believe in it, somehow it was all different, because I wasn't exactly sure if I believed what I so clearly felt.”
-Julia Sweeney

Atheism Defined
American Atheists
Pew Research Center: Facts About Atheists
Top Atheists in the World Today
Freedom From Religion

Celebrities Who Don't Believe in God
Patheos: The Free Thinker

New Yorker: Americans and Atheism

Infidels: The Secular Web
American Humanist Association
Richard Dawkins Foundation

“I don’t believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it. And I believe it’s the best way to live.”
-Natalie Portman

“I made a commitment to follow reason and evidence wherever they might lead, even if it meant taking me away from my cherished beliefs. I have to say that life has been much richer and happier since I was healed of religious delusion.”
-Dan Barker

“It’s not that I am an atheist. But rather that I am a member of God’s loyal opposition.”
-Ashleigh Brilliant

"I am an atheist. And I am not neutral about religion. I am decidedly hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea. Not just a false one. And I mean, not just organized religion, but religious belief itself."
-Christopher Hitchens

"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other."

-Martin Luther

"Our substitute teacher asked me if I had jesus in my heart. I didn't try to explain to him the separation of church and state considering he couldn't even understand the separation of fact from fiction."

-Saffron Herndon

“As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.”
-Butterfly McQueen

DARE TO DOUBT
HERE I STAND
SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE