south west england atheist

logician

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

– Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]

enumeration

Polytheism is the worship of or belief in multiple deities, which are usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religions and rituals. Polytheism is a type of theism. Within theism, it contrasts with monotheism, the belief in a singular God, in most cases transcendent. 

Atheists disbelieve or lack belief in the existence of God or gods.

Agnostics believe that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena; claims neither faith nor disbelief in God.

Pastafarianism is a social movement that promotes a light-hearted view of religion and opposes the teaching of intelligent design and creationism in public schools. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster charges US$30 for a Canadian to become an ordained minister of the religion. The United States recognizes Pastafarianism as a religion.

routine

"I work from 11am to 3pm Then I go to the gym."
- Ricky Gervais

atheist

"Left to themselves evil people will do evil things and good people will do good things. If you want good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
- Steven Weinberg

Hell's Angel

on religion

"When I became a man, I put away childish things."
- Richard Dawkins

"All religious people are basically bipolar; just a little lithium [carbonate] and they'll be fine."
- Larry Flint

atheist comedian

agnostics and atheists

Fraction of atheists and agnostics in different countries. The values for China, Cuba, and North Korea must be viewed with skepticism as comparatively little data is available in these countries. Source here.

God Is Not Great

... argues an informed Christopher Hitchens spiritedly, articulately but inadequately. A bland, mildly dissenting New York Times book review here by Harvard Rhodes Scholar Michael Kinsley. In 1954, Albert Einstein more effectively and succinctly remarked that religion is a "childish superstition." 

Omnipotent Superiority

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
- H.L. Mencken [1880-1956]

"A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who, in addition to his main work of creating the universe in the first place, is still around to oversee and influence the subsequent fate of his initial creation. In many theistic belief systems, the deity is intimately involved in human affairs. He answers prayers; forgives or punishes sins; intervenes in the world by performing miracles; frets about good and bad deeds and knows when we do them (or even think of doing them). A deist, too, believes in a supernatural intelligence, but one whose activities were confined to setting up the laws that govern the universe in the first place. The deist God never intervenes thereafter, and certainly has no specific interest in human affairs. Pantheists don't believe in a supernatural God at all, but use the word God as a non-supernatural synonym for Nature, or for the Universe, or for the lawfulness that governs its workings. Deists differ from theists in that their God does not answer prayers, is not interested in sins or confessions, does not read our thoughts and does not intervene with capricious miracles. Deists differ from pantheists in that the deist God is some kind of cosmic intelligence, rather than the pantheist's metaphoric or poetic synonym for the laws of the universe. Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."
- Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion [p.p. 39-40]