Which one of these Atheist quotes is the best (just answer with a number)?

Question

1. Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."..........Author Unknown

2. When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything."..........G.K. Chesterson

3. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; 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

4. A man without a god is like a fish without a bicycle."..........Adapted from a quotation of feminist Gloria Steinem

5. Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune."..........Plato

6. I count religion but a childish toy,And hold there is no sin but ignorance."..........Christopher Marlowe

Pick just a number but if you have a better one on the subject, lets see it.

Answer 1

2

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

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one
- George Bernard Shaw

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Seneca the Younger

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend
- Richard Jeni

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe.
- Carl Sagan

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason
- Benjamin Franklin

When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
- Oscar Wilde

Christians worship a dead Jew on a stick.
- George Carlin

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Hence today I believe I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord
- Adolph Hitler

Answer 2

3

Answer 3

3

Answer 4

3

Answer 5

2

Answer 6

5

Answer 7

5

Answer 8

5

Answer 9

3. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; 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

4. A man without a god is like a fish without a bicycle."..........Adapted from a quotation of feminist Gloria Steinem

5. Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune."..........Plato

Answer 10

That pretty much sums up my experience. Brainwashed even before the age of reason, delusionally devout and blindly believing up until my early teens, experiencing doubts about the veracity of Catholicism's doctrines and dogmas, exposing myself to non-deist religions like Buddhism and Taoism (less religion than philosophy, actually), and finally coming to the irreversible conclusion that religious belief without empirical evidence is a STUPID position to take. I was then "re-born" as an atheist, because this is the only reasonable and rational position - the only one that really makes sense. This is the only life I know for CERTAIN that exists, so why live it by wilfully submitting yourself to non-existent supernatural entities, or holding out for the possibility that God may exist? Come on, the god of the OT is plainly so absurdly imagined as to be impossible. Organized religion is a crime against humanity. Edit @ Rem N - There's nothing unique about Christianity. Many earlier religious beliefs from Egypt and Persia, for example, had god-men messiahs at their central core. It's an invented religious fraud like all the others. It requires blind belief, willful ignorance, and a complete shutdown of that part of the brain that allows reason and rationality to shine through.

Answer 11

7