This works for me

[Brainstormy]

Ran across this quote from Asimov, which I love because it eliminates all the pointless word-mincing.

“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
― Isaac Asimov

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. We are all born atheists, like racism and misogyny and the rest

religion is a dysfunction we have to be taught.

Now I know that sounds harsh, and I sincerely do not mean to insult religious people that are also good people, and they do exist. I dont know very many of them but I know they exist.

It is meant to illustrate a reality in such a way as to get thru to some folks.

Maybe.

[defacto7]

2. If facts be harsh, so be it. There's nothing insulting

in speaking our mind. Insults are in the hearing. Keep speaking out so reason isn't lost behind the mythical clouds.

[defacto7]

3. Me too.

[Binkie The Clown]

4. I've often thought of myself as an "apathist".

Don't know if god exists, and don't care.

[Towlie]

5. According to Wikiquote, Asimov said this in the Spring of 1982.

... and the source is Free Inquiry.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

Back before the Internet was widely available and we were using modems like the one that Matthew Broderick had in War Games, I participated in an online chat with Isaac Asimov, hosted by America Online. When it was my turn I asked a very simple question: "Do you believe in God?"

He answered "No."

Later a transcript of the entire session was released, but I was disappointed to find that our short exchange was suspiciously garbled and unreadable.

[progressoid]

6. "I don't want to waste my time"

Yeah, there is too much other stuff here in the real world to experience. I don't want to waste what's left of my time with that god tediousness.

[HAB911]

7. I should be an agnostic

but years ago I felt a decision had to be made, take one path or the other in order to on with my life. I am an atheist.

[oppressedproletarian]

8. Reality

and the universe are light-years more stunning, amazing, awe inspiring and heartbreakingly gorgeous than any made up fairy tale could ever be.