Your God Is Too Small Quotes

“If, for whatever cruel twist of fate, the God of the Bible exists, I want no part of him. I, along with what I hope is the vast majority of humanity, am better than him. I know more than he ever taught. I see beyond horizons that he could never reach. I love more genuinely than He. I help more than He. I understand myself better than He ever could. I see planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies just on the edge of humanity’s perception. I can even sometimes catch a small glimpse of our universe, and all the wonder and beauty it holds. Your god is too small for me.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“everyone is entitled to their opinion. But the clear distinction in my mind is that I don't hate people, I hate ideas. I don't hate Christians or Muslims or Jews, but I do hate the doctrines and dogma they subscribe to.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“Faith is often lauded as a positive quality, but it is, in fact, very intellectually lazy. Faith precludes scientific thinking and the natural wonder of discovery; it stops people from searching for answers to questions about the real world. Faith is little more than the glorification of willful ignorance.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“It's curious to note that the miracles performed by an "all-loving" and benevolent God so often involve sparing a handful of people from a tragic accident, devastating disaster or deadly disease. God is rarely held accountable by believers for all of the deaths that occur when people are not saved by a "miracle." On the whole, the tiny percentage of "miraculous" recoveries would be greater evidence of a deity's arbitrary cruelty than his benevolence, but this is never something believers seem comfortable discussing.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“This is the only real "burden" of atheism. It calls for one to take full responsibility for their actions. There is no guiding hand to lay the blame upon and no "divine" plan that relieves us of our obligation to act humanely and justly to all people. But it's a "burden" and a "blessing" as well, because it also means that we get to own all the pride in our own achievements as well.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“I look to science to provide answers as to HOW we got here and where we’re heading, not WHY we are here because that is an existential and philosophical question which honestly has a different answer for each of us.”
― Dean Lawrence, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“addition, if God has a plan for us, does it not clash with the much-touted concept of free will? And, though perhaps I digress, how is it just for God to punish all of humanity because one woman, Eve, disobeyed him in a single instance? It would be like sentencing you and your entire family to languish in prison because one of your distant predecessors committed murder.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“If the Hebrew Job had been a Celt, he would have spit in YHWH’s eye, called him a self-buggering maggot, and gone to his death reciting a poem about the joys of freedom.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“Donating blood, giving money to the Red Cross or volunteering with a relief organization would all be far more beneficial than praying to the same hypothetical deity who ostensibly caused the disaster in the first place.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“People believe in scripture and place value in the words because they already believe in the religious principles the text describes. There”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“Everything in the universe conforms to certain simple scientific rules that have been repeated over billions of years. While this can be awe-inspiring, it by no means suggests a creator.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“If, for whatever cruel twist of fate, the God of the Bible exists, I want no part of him. I, along with what I hope is the vast majority of humanity, am better than him. I”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“You may also get beaten-up in public for being offensive towards the holy month by simply eating in public!”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“The hardest moment I've ever faced as an atheist who was once a Christian was to go back in my mind and actually let go of those I've lost. I had to redress those losses and accept them on totally new terms. They're gone forever and I'm never going to see them again. I'll never hear their voice or see their smile again. Worst of all, I will never get to tell them I love them again. But, knowing that makes me more aware of just how precious every moment is in life. Every memory is special... because it may be the last memory you ever make with that person.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“There is nothing that can be found in religion that one can't find in various forms of philosophy.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“The Bible, Koran etc. are nothing but a hindrance to true enlightenment through education and humanism. Science is the gift given to us to understand how things work, and we should not squander this gift out of the fear that the one who gave it to us in the first place would not want us to use it.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“Religious people do not get to enjoy taking pride in their own accomplishments because according to their various doctrines all “glory” belongs to their god. They fail to see that this idea that God gets all the glory is like a father whose son does all the hard work on a science fair project and wins first prize, but then his dad comes over and says “Since I put my penis in your mother’s vagina a few years ago and that made you, now everything that you do that is noteworthy and a wonderful accomplishment belongs to me. So hand over the trophy, you little snot-nosed brat.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“Truth is not subjective or democratic. It does not need belief to make it work. Gravity, for example, works the same whether you have faith in it or not. You do not need to choose to believe in gravity because it's an immutable fact of the universe.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“Prayer is a type of magical thinking. Its appeal is undeniable; it feels empowering and makes individuals feel as though they have a measure of control over the world around them. But there is simply no evidence that prayers are anything more than a placebo. And unlike many placebos, prayer can actually be harmful.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“All of this means that, from a scientific viewpoint, morality does not stem from God. Instead, it has its roots in brain chemicals and is supported by strong cultural conditioning. Parents pass their morals along to their children, and individuals take social cues regarding "right" and "wrong" behaviors from friends, family, media influence and more. Religious texts are just an attempt to codify acceptable behaviors into a set of laws. Unfortunately, these rules can quickly become outdated, irrelevant and even painfully arbitrary.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“In science, hearsay and anecdotal evidence are not sufficient to prove something. Each time a "miracle" occurs, it's easy to see magical thinking, misattribution and other human errors at work. For example, if a child is ill in the hospital, a family member might pray for his recovery. If that child does recover, the praying relative will attribute this to the power of prayer, not to any medical innovations, immunological responses or sheer power of chance.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“It's not the Answer that drives us. It's the Question.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“But if life does exist elsewhere, is it possible that whatever civilization there might be could be contemplating some, if not many, of the same questions we are asking as well? And if that’s true, what conclusions have they come to so far? Have they looked to the stars and wondered what else is out there? Or have they buried their heads in the ground in fear of the wrath of a god, like so many of us have before?”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“Instead, we’re left with a book that was formed by multiple authors who chose to write about such things as working on certain days and wearing different clothes. These concerns were canonized by a small group of people who decided that they were important enough to make the best-selling book of all time a steaming pile of bullshit for other ‘leaders’ to profit from and use to convince people to do their bidding.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“If you are a brother, you cannot help but remain in a constant state of fear – what if the next time you get to see your sister is when she is hospitalized – wounded on every part of her body with slap marks on her face, her clothes torn, and her eyes telling you that she regrets being alive? And when you reach the courts, your sister is asked to present a certain number of witnesses who saw her getting molested only because she was not wearing a cloth-bag and if she doesn’t present the witnesses, no case will be filed, no rape committed!”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“If you are an elder sister, what if one day your little brother comes home with one of his fingers broken for picking up a piece of bread, or his jaw displaced just because you committed the blunder of sending him to school with lunch during Ramadan? Living in such a place with no respect, or even concern, for rationality and evidence, having such insane people around you, what can you do? How can you live? That feeling of being a slave, bound to pretend to be what you are not, forbidden to express yourself and required to do as told, cannot be described in words…”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“You are not allowed to openly express your views, simply because they do not match those of the religious fanatics who rule the country. You cannot ask questions openly, you cannot refuse to believe in something that has been asserted without evidence. You cannot decide how you want to live because what you will think and follow was decided even before you were born. The most likely scenario is that you will sell your life at the cost of your breaths, and satisfy yourself with mere survival. Either you would get brainwashed and deluded, your capability to critically examine eradicated from the very beginning; or you would become a freethinking skeptic, living in fear.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“I have spent more than 19 years of my life living in Pakistan, an Islamic Republic. If you wish to see what hell might actually be as a non-believer, skeptic, freethinker, atheist – pay a visit to this country. Islam rocks the cradle here but I do not talk of Pakistan in particular; you may visit any religion-dominated country, especially if it is an Islamic republic, and find yourself stifled.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion

“In his young mind, there it was. A surefire, absolute method to gain access to that which all Muslims strive for their entire lives. It confounded him to no end that none of his peers or elders had discovered such a wonderful and easy shortcut. He would not be one such sheep; he wouldn’t allow the joys of a full life to pull the wool over his young eyes. His future course of action became crystal clear. After making up his mind, steeling his resolve and after a number of failed attempts, Armin finally launched himself from one of the higher windows in his school.”
― Atheist Republic, Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty Without Religion