The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.
If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.
Religion fosters servility and solipsism.
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste.
Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.
Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.