Militant atheists do not hide their arrogance and their superiority; they proudly exhibit it whenever they have the opportunity. Their web sites are replete with pride, impertinent comments, tangible sarcasm and copious ridicule of religion. The following are some examples of such condescending attitudes and statements.

"To atheists, I make an especially avid plea to reconsider their own position as well. I am tired of heated debates that lead to personal insult. I find Christians who are close-minded frustrating, but I find atheists who speak sarcastically and disrespectfully equally disappointing." (Emphasis Mine)

O'Brien, Paul, Gentle Godlessness, http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/paul_obrien/gentle/atheism1.html, (Viewed October 29, 2006).

(Freedom From Religion) "Foundation PR director Dan Barker and Foundation president Anne Gaylor stood beside a Ten Commandment monument in Denver, Colorado and placed beside it the following marker with Anne's suggested wording for a freethought alternative."

“There are no gods, no devils no angels no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”

http://www.ffrf.org/legal/legal5.php, (Viewed October 29/2006).

Do study the ten commandments! They epitomize the childishness, the vindictiveness, the sexism, the inflexibility and the inadequacies of the bible as a book of morals.

Freedom From Religion Foundation. What's Wrong With The Ten Commandments?http://ffrf.org/nontracts/10comm.php, (Viewed Feb. 24, 2007).

"In God We Don't Trust"

"After numerous requests by its membership, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, with its attorney Robert R. Tiernan, went to federal court in Denver challenging "In God We Trust." The Freedom From Religion sued the federal government in 1994 to have "In God We Trust" removed from currency and as our national motto."

"The Foundation lawsuit was dismissed by a 10th Circuit federal judge on the grounds that "In God We Trust" is not a religious phrase (1994). The Foundation appealed the dismissal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which did not take the case in 1996. "

http://www.ffrf.org/legal/legal5.php, (Viewed October 29, 2006.

"If believers are, in general, happier than non-believers, that says just as much about the psychological effects of religion in numbing the mind."

http://atheistempire.com/atheism/atheism.php, (Viewed October 29, 2006).

"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

Quoted in, http://atheistempire.com/atheism/atheism.php, (Viewed October 29, 2006).

"The truth is the Bible portrays a monster that is vengeful, self centered, vicious and unmerciful."

http://www.atheisteye.com/MyRants.html, (Viewed October 30, 2006).

"By thinking critically, instead of superstitiously, we affect the real world in a positive way. We can come up with real solutions instead of asking for divine intervention that never arrives. It is only us who can save ourselves."

http://www.atheisteye.com/YourRants.html, (Viewed October 30, 2006).

"Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a better place to live in, instead of the sort of place that the churches in all these centuries have made it."

Bertrand Russell, "Why I Am Not A Christian," http://www.atheisteye.com/BertrandRussell.html, (Viewed October 30, 2006).

Atheist forcefulness is nothing new. This example goes back to 1858. That spirit is alive and well in many of today's atheist.

"If we find a mind bound round with Creeds and Bibles, we will select a sharp knife to cut the bonds; if we find men prostrating themselves, without inquiry, before idols, our policy is iconoclastic -- we will destroy those idols. If we find a rock in our path, we will break it; but we will not quarrel with our brother who deems his proper work to be that of polishing the fragments. We believe all the religions of the world are founded on error, in the ignorance of natural causes and material conditions, and we deem it our duty to endeavour to expose their falsity. Our policy is therefore aggressive."

Bradlaugh, Charles, Aggressive Atheism, The Investigator newspaper, (Viewed November 1,1858.
http://www.atheisteye.com/AggressiveAtheism.html, October 30, 2006).

Madalyn Murray O'hair, the champion of atheism, had no respect for agnostics. In her typical intolerant ways she dismissed them as "gutless."

"The Atheist position is that the traditionalist historical concepts of god are quite fallacious and that the notion of some ``super power'' is not now susceptible of proof by existing scientific methods or by the accumulation of knowledge presently accessible to man. Therefore the Atheists live as if there were no god, no efficacy in prayer, and no life after death. We are free from theism. We bet everything on this as being accurate.

The agnostic is gutless and prefers to keep one safe foot in the god camp."

Agnostics.html, (Viewed October 30, 2006).

"This website hosts a collection of atheist essays that illuminate the lunacy and cowardice of religious beliefs. As such, you may be offended, insulted, or angered--maybe all three. So if you don't think you can take it, then just stop reading right now.

While I see all flavors of theism as bordering on sheer lunacy, most of my commentary is directed at Christians...as they are the most virulent offenders of proselytization and religious hypocrisy. So if it will make you sleep well tonight, feel free to exclude yourself from this group."

http://www.godlessbastard.com/, (Viewed Dec. 27, 2006).

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."

Karl Marx, http://www.atheistempire.com/greatminds/index.php, (Viewed Dec. 27, 2006).

"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"

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

Mark Twain, Reflections on Religion, 1906, http://www.atheistempire.com/greatminds/index.php, (Viewed Dec. 27, 2006).

"Religion is science in the absence of fact. "

Pain, Michael, "Thoughts on Atheism." http://www.atheistempire.com/writings/thoughts.html, (Viewed Dec. 27, 2006).

"Given his outspoken defense of Darwin, and natural selection as the force of life, Dawkins has assumed a new role: the religious right's Public Enemy No. 1. Yet Dawkins doesn't shy from controversy, nor does he suffer fools gladly. He recently met a minister who was on the opposite side of a British political debate. When the minister put out his hand, Dawkins kept his hands at his side and said, "You, sir, are an ignorant bigot."

"A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. Religion is scarcely distinguishable from childhood delusions like the "imaginary friend" and the bogeyman under the bed. Unfortunately, the God delusion possesses adults, and not just a minority of unfortunates in an asylum. The word "delusion" also carries negative connotations, and religion has plenty of those."

Adapted from Richard Dawkin's speech in acceptance of the 1996 Humanist of the Year Award from the American Humanist Association.

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/index.html?pn=2, The American Humanist Association, D (Viewed ec. 27, 2006).

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Before God! But now God is dead. You superior men, this God was your greatest danger. Only since he is in the grave, have you risen again. Only now comes the great noontide; only now the superior man will be –Lord!"

"Suffering and taking sin upon himself might have been right for that preacher of small people (Jesus Christ). But I rejoice in great sin as my great solace—"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, In Michael Curtis (Ed.) The Great Political Theories, Vol. 2 (New York: Avon Books, 1962, PP. 261-262) Quoted in Christopher, J.R., G.G, Wittet, Modern Western Civilization. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991, 232, 233.

“Perhaps the most solemn conceptions that have caused the most fighting and suffering, the conceptions “God” and “sin,” will one day seem to us of no more importance than a child’s play thing…”

Levy, Oscar (Ed.) The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Volume 12, 1964. Quoted in Christopher, J.R., G.G, Wittet, Modern Western Civilization. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991, 75.

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