The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair basically a chore. Buy mother a book dad a new tie my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards or holiday cards including my atheist and secular friends.

I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up - they have no holidays.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

I'm an atheist but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible no Torah just the love religion.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds they would remain so.

I am an atheist and if an atheist and a pope think the same things there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.