“I don’t want to believe, I want to know.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
When I posted this sentence on my social media profiles, I was informed that it is by Carl Sagan. This, however, is an erroneous attribution. He never said or wrote it.
“Atheism is a natural result of intellectual honesty.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Anyone who believes in a bunch of nonsense can’t stand lucidity.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Believers are susceptible to the same problems and sufferings as unbelievers. Consequently, in addition to the belief in him not bringing them advantage, believers have no way to attest that God exists.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Christianity. Religion that preaches that the Universe was created by an invisible being who put you in the world as guilty of two crimes, even though you didn’t ask to be born: a bite on a forbidden fruit, 6,000 years before you were born, and the death of his son, 2,000 years before you were born. For these two crimes that you didn’t commit, you’ll be tortured in an invisible lake of fire and brimstone, unless you implore the creator of the Universe for forgiveness and worship him.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Desire for lifelong paternal protection, nonacceptance that life has an end and fear of dying. This is why so many people believe in God.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Disbelief is fundamental to the existence of religions. Where it’s forbidden to disbelieve, there is no religious freedom.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Feel free to address your prayers and supplications to me. It will have the same effect as addressing them to God — with the small difference that, if they reach me and it’s possible for me, I’ll try to help you.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Galaxy collisions, supernovae, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, neutron stars, inhospitable planets, comets, asteroids, meteorites, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones and Evolution are incontestable evidence that the Universe is not the project of any designer, unless the project was to start and abandon it to its own devices.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“God can everything, including not exist.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“God: the supreme artificial unintelligence.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“I don’t reject God, because for me to be able to reject him he first would have to exist.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“I respect people’s right to believe imbecilities, not the imbecilities people have the right to believe.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“If believers don’t respect the beliefs of believers, why should I respect the beliefs of believers?”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“If God exists, it’s not necessary to believe in him, and if he doesn’t, much less.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“If God exists, it’s not the human being who has to feel bad for not believing, but God for giving the human being reasons not to believe.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“If it doesn’t extinguish natural catastrophes, diseases, violence, wars and famine, of what use is the belief in God?”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“If it’s obvious that God exists, why do every year thousands of believers, including clergymen, stop believing in God?”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“If religion had something to do with truth and the truth is only one, by now believers already would have identified in which religion the truth is, and, instead of thousands, there would be only one religion.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“If your religion doesn’t make you be good, something is wrong with it, and if you need religion to be good, something is wrong with you.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“In the formation of hypocrites, of all ideologies Christianity is the champion.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“It doesn’t take disaster, tragedy or catastrophe to make you feel that God doesn’t exist. Biting your tongue, hitting your shin or falling on your butt is more than enough.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“It’s indisputable that Christianity is founded on human sacrifice and filicide. What’s the death of the Son on the cross if not human sacrifice to placate the wrath of the Father?”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Nothing causes more division, hatred and backwardness than religion.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Only Atheists don’t teach lies about God.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Religion is the best form of domination. The biblical accounts about God’s wrath are so cruel that it doesn’t take a genius to realize they were invented for the purpose of frightening. A frightened people is easily controlled.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Religion is the illusion of having answers to questions to which no one has answers.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“The Bible is so evil that the Koran is based on it.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“The existence of believers and nonbelievers is evidence of the nonexistence of God.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“There is no greater pleasure than to be a freethinker.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Those who are not satisfied with anything less than being 100% intellectually honest are atheists, because Atheism is the only stance free of incoherences and contradictions.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“To be a conservative is to enjoy being a loser. Conservatives have never been able to make the world stop changing.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“To say ‘God exists’ is evidence that God doesn’t exist. If God existed, his existence would be so obvious that there would be no need to say ‘God exists’.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Train up children in the way they should go, and when they are old, they will not be deceived by religions.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Where there is no reflection, there is manipulation.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“Why does God speak only with those who believe in God? Why do angels appear only to those who believe in angels? Why do demons possess only those who believe in demons? And why do spirits visit only those who believe in spirits? For the same reasons why aliens kidnap only those who believe in flying saucers.”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“You worship the right god of the right translation of the right book of the right branch of the right religion and in the right way. Am I right?”
— Paulo Bittencourt
“I don’t want to believe, I want to know.” (Paulo Bittencourt) • Freethought, Humanism and Atheism 