The Atheist's Bible

"All thinking men are atheists," Ernest Hemingway famously wrote. True? Here are quips, quotes, and questions from a distinguished assortment of geniuses and jokers, giving readers a chance to decide for themselves....



When I think of all the harm [the bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Oscar Wilde



SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.

Ambrose Bierce



There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Gertrude Stein



Do not let yourself be deceived: great intellects are skeptical.

Friedrich Nietzsche



Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz



God is love, but get it in writing.

Gypsy Rose Lee



Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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