History Quotes / NayTheist

->''When [[Literature/HarryPotter Ron]] the Mighty is stood in front of the Gate of Heaven, he begins straightaway to denounce it! He cries, "Heaven is for those too scared of nothingness! I will go no further than my mortal flesh will carry! This mirror is [[HellOfAHeaven the sick bed of Heaven, Harry! The eternity of pansy lives!]]" Ronnie will have nothing to do with the mirror. He is only concerned with the flesh and the blood of the now.''

->''Dumbledore starts in. "Don't you want some cocoa or soup, Harry? [[DareToBeBadass Come away from the light of Heaven's easy life. We need such a valiant, beautiful warrior as yourself here to live and to hack the serpents of evil in two, hell, into twos, into threes and fours! Your life will be the very envy of Heaven and its slobbery inhabitants! No, Harry. You were meant to stride with us, the living! To course with us and our blood! You are meant to end when your share of that blood turns brown upon the rocks of glory!]] You and I shall drink to-night, Harry. We shall drink to life's confines, to life's pearly end, which is [[CessationOfExistence the nothingness of death]], not [[WhoWantsToLiveForever the perpetual pansiness of Heaven]]!"''

-->-- ''AudioPlay/WizardPeopleDearReader''

->''When [[Literature/HarryPotter Ron]] the Mighty is stood in front of the Gate of Heaven, he begins straightaway to denounce it! He cries, "Heaven is for those too scared of nothingness! I will go no further than my mortal flesh will carry! This mirror is [[HellOfAHeaven the sick bed of Heaven, Harry! The eternity of pansy lives!]]" Ronnie will have nothing to do with the mirror. He is only concerned with the flesh and the blood of the now.

->This destroys Harry. Ron leaves him to contemplate the design of the cosmos versus the terminal beauty of being a wizard.

->For forty-three days straight Harry sits in front of the Gate of Heaven, waiting for either God to appear, or for Ronnie to come back and apologize. But, to Harry's surprise, neither shows up. Only Near-Dead Dumbledore stumbles upon the vigil. Harry is considerably weakened, and is actually taken surprised by Dumbledore's presence.

->Dumbledore starts in. "Don't you want some cocoa or soup, Harry? [[DareToBeBadass Come away from the light of Heaven's easy life. We need such a valiant, beautiful warrior as yourself here to live and to hack the serpents of evil in two, hell, into twos, into threes and fours! Your life will be the very envy of Heaven and its slobbery inhabitants! No, Harry. You were meant to stride with us, the living! To course with us and our blood! You are meant to end when your share of that blood turns brown upon the rocks of glory!]] You and I shall drink to-night, Harry. We shall drink to life's confines, to life's pearly end, which is [[CessationOfExistence the nothingness of death]], not [[WhoWantsToLiveForever the perpetual pansiness of Heaven]]!"

This destroys Harry. Ron leaves him to contemplate the design of the cosmos versus the terminal beauty of being a wizard.

For forty-three days straight Harry sits in front of the Gate of Heaven, waiting for either God to appear, or for Ronnie to come back and apologize. But, to Harry's surprise, neither shows up. Only Near-Dead Dumbledore stumbles upon the vigil. Harry is considerably weakened, and is actually taken surprised by Dumbledore's presence.

Dumbledore starts in. "Don't you want some cocoa or soup, Harry? [[DareToBeBadass Come away from the light of Heaven's easy life. We need such a valiant, beautiful warrior as yourself here to live and to hack the serpents of evil in two, hell, into twos, into threes and fours! Your life will be the very envy of Heaven and its slobbery inhabitants! No, Harry. You were meant to stride with us, the living! To course with us and our blood! You are meant to end when your share of that blood turns brown upon the rocks of glory!]] You and I shall drink to-night, Harry. We shall drink to life's confines, to life's pearly end, which is [[CessationOfExistence the nothingness of death]], not [[WhoWantsToLiveForever the perpetual pansiness of Heaven]]!"

->''"I don't hold with paddlin' with the Occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the Occult you start believing in Spirits, and when you start believing in Spirits you start believing in Demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble."\\
"But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg.\\
"That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em."''
-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies''

->''"There isn't even a word to describe the Dwarven view on divinity. They were atheists on a world where gods exist."''
-->'''Michael Kirkbride''' on the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwemer]], ''VideoGame/TheElderScrolls''

->''"I know of nothing poorer under the sun than you, Gods! You barely nourish -- by sacrificial offerings and prayerful exhalations -- your Majesty, and would starve, were not children and beggars hopeful fools."''

->''"I don't '''believe''' in God. Met a few, didn't believe in '''them''' either."''
-->-- '''{{ComicBook/Batman}}''', ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague #25'' (ComicBook/DCRebirth)

-->-- '''Padrig "Paddy" Dower'''', ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning''

-->-- '''Bahzell Bahnakson''' to '''Tomonak, God of Justice''', ''[[TheWarGods Oath of Swords]]''

->''“An omnipotent, all-knowing tyrant is not so different [[GodIsEvil from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine]] which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified.”''
-->-- '''Karen Armstrong''', ''A History of God''

->''"From now, we are enemies... You and I. Because You choose for your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block you, I swear it. [[RageAgainstTheHeavens I will hinder and harm your creature as far as I am able. I will ruin your incarnation]].

-->-- Karen Armstrong, ''A History of God''

-->-- Creator/TerryPratchett, ''Discworld/ReaperMan''

-->-- Girard, ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

-->-- Epicurus

-->-- Captain Malcolm Reynolds to Shepherd Derrial Book, ''Series/{{Firefly}}''

-->-- Lord Vetinari, ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals''

-->--Flavor text of the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=398414 "Enlightened Ascetic"]]

->Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and [[GodIsDead God was not there]]. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world. Was Rorschach. Does that answer your questions, Doctor?
-->-- '''Rorschach''', ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''

->'''Tom Joad''': Ain't you the preacher?\\
'''Preacher Casy''': Used to be. Not no more. I lost the call. But boy, I sure used to have it. Oh, I used to get an irrigation ditch so squirmin' full of repentant sinners, I pretty near [[GallowsHumor drowned half of 'em!]] Not no more. I lost the spirit. I got nuthin' to preach about no more, that's all. I ain't so sure of things. I asked myself, "what is this here call Holy Spirit?" Maybe that's love. Why, ''I'' love everybody so much, I'm [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere fit to bust sometimes]]. So... maybe there ain't no sin, and there ain't no virtue. There's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice, and some ain't so nice. And that's all any man's got a right to say. 'Course I'll say a grace if somebody sets out the food, but ma heart ain't in it.
-->-- ''Film/TheGrapesOfWrath''

->''“He says gods like to see an atheist around. [[BoltOfDivineRetribution Gives them something to aim at]].”''
-->-- Creator/TerryPratchett, ''Discworld/SmallGods''

->''“It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.”''
-->-- [[UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi Mohandas Gandhi]]

->'''Cersei:''' “Praying to the Gods to have mercy on us all” The Gods have no mercy; that’s why they are Gods. My father told me that when he caught me praying.\\

->When it comes to God’s existence, I’m not an atheist and I’m not an agnostic—-I’m an acrostic, the whole thing puzzles me.
-->-- Creator/GeorgeCarlin

-->--''[[http://www.findchaos.com Find Chaos]]''

-->-- [[MahatmaGandhi Mohandas Gandhi]]

-->--''Film/TheGrapesOfWrath''

-->—'''Richard B. Riddick''', ''Film/PitchBlack''

-->—''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', "The Terror Beyond"

-->—Karen Armstrong, ''A History of God''

-->—'''Creator/AynRand''' in a letter

-->—'''Polly Perks''', ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment''

-->—'''Bahzell Bahnakson''' to '''Tomonak, God of Justice''', ''[[TheWarGods Oath of Swords]]''

-->—Creator/TerryPratchett, ''Discworld/ReaperMan''

-->—Creator/TerryPratchett, ''Discworld/SmallGods''

-->—Girard, ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

-->—Epicurus

-->—[[MahatmaGandhi Mohandas Gandhi]]

-->—Captain Malcolm Reynolds to Shepherd Derrial Book, ''Series/{{Firefly}}''

-->—Lord Vetinari, ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals''

-->—'''The Doctor''' to '''the Beast''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', “The Satan Pit”

-->—''Series/GameOfThrones''

-->—''Series/{{Firefly}}''

-->—''Discworld/{{Thud}}''

-->—''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''

->''“When it comes to God’s existence, I’m not an atheist and I’m not an agnostic—I’m an acrostic, the whole thing puzzles me.”''
-->—'''Creator/GeorgeCarlin'''

-->—''JusticeLeague'', "The Terror Beyond"

-->—'''[[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]]''', “The Satan Pit”

->''“[[GodIsEvil An omnipotent, all-knowing tyrant]] is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified.”''