When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist a woman in the audience stood up and said 'Yes but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

He was an embittered atheist the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

To you I'm an atheist to God I'm the Loyal Opposition.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

If only I wasn't an atheist I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist especially now that his friend and rival for the title Christopher Hitchens has now gone to meet his Maker.

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith but not Penn Jillette.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.