Neel

“The God of the Bible doesn’t exist. The Bible itself is essentially a collection of Middle Eastern folklore that gullible people over the centuries have accepted as historical fact. Jesus was a great man, but a man nonetheless; he never walked on water, transmuted matter, or rose from the dead. That was just a myth that grew up around him. People don’t have souls and there is no afterlife. Religion itself is essentially a primitive and corrupt enterprise, and religious belief is not necessary to lead a moral, decent, and successful life.”
― I.M. Skeptical, God is Just a Word: How to Effectively Dispel Religious Belief When You Find It

“If God is omniscient, he must already know how he is going to intervene to change the course of history using his omnipotence. But that means he can’t change his mind about his intervention, which means he is not omnipotent”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“the God of the Gaps’ strategy condemned by the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. What worries thoughtful theologians such as Bonhoeffer is that gaps shrink as science advances, and God is threatened with eventually having nothing to do and nowhere to hide. What worries scientists is something else.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“As Einstein said, ‘If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.’ Michael Shermer, in The Science of Good and Evil, calls it a debate stopper. If you agree that, in the absence of God, you would ‘commit robbery, rape, and murder’, you reveal yourself as an immoral person, ‘and we would be well advised to steer a wide course around you’. If, on the other hand, you admit that you would continue to be a good person even when not under divine surveillance, you have fatally undermined your claim that God is necessary for us to be good. I suspect that quite a lot of religious people do think religion is what motivates them to be good, especially if they belong to one of those faiths that systematically exploits personal guilt.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion