Mark Twain Quotes about Atheist

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

Religious, Atheist, People

"Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2". Book by Mark Twain (p. 302), 2013.

I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.

Atheist, Departure, Helping

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!

Mark Twain

Atheist, Responsibility, Men

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

Mark Twain

Death, Atheist, Sunday

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

Atheist, Prayer, Book

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

Mark Twain

Atheist, Thug, If There Is A God

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Life, Atheist

"Letters from the Earth" (1940)

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Mark Twain

Death, Religious, Atheist

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

Mark Twain

Atheist, Men, Church

Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

Mark Twain

God, Atheist, Character

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

Mark Twain

Atheist, Believe, Religion

Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.27, Courier Corporation

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

Mark Twain

Religious, Atheist, Believe

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.55, St. Martin's Press

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

Mark Twain

Religious, Atheist, Animal

"The Lowest Animal" (1940)

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

Mark Twain

Atheist, Character, Angel

Mark Twain (1995). “The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood”, p.319, University of Georgia Press