Woody Allen, Director/Actor/WriterIn his autobiographical movie, Stardust Memories, Allen's character is called an atheist. He responds 'To you, I'm an atheist. To God, I'm the loyal opposition.' Some more quotes: 'Not only is God dead, but just try to find a plumber on weekends.' 'I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles / Just like having an ear for music or something.
What is the most convincing argument for atheism? A lot of people are trying to use formal logic to pitch atheism, but I want to argue that even atheism is more a matter of faith rather than logic. The thing about faith is that logic cannot be effectively applied to it.
It would just never occur to such a person for a second that the world isn't about something.' -AL-The following quotes arrive from Wayne Aiken's Atheist Fortune Cookie File.'
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.' 'Selections from the Allen Notebooks,' in New Yorker (5 Nov. 1973)'Not only is God dead, but just try to find a plumber on weekends.' 'To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.' 'As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.'
'How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?' 'If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.' 'I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.' 'The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held.' 'The Early Essays,' Without Feathers (1976)'I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.'
Rolling Stone magazine, 1987.