Product Description

"All thinking men are atheists," Ernest Hemingway famously wrote. True? Here are quips, quotes, and questions from a distinguished assortment of geniuses and jokers, giving readers a chance to decide for themselves....

When I think of all the harm [the bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
Oscar Wilde

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein

Do not let yourself be deceived: great intellects are skeptical.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

God is love, but get it in writing.
Gypsy Rose Lee

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47459 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• Released on: 2007-06-12
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Boston Globe
"This slim, attractive volume will amuse nonbelievers -- and, ironically, cause them to spend hours reading about God and religion."

Philadelphia Inquirer
"If atheism's going mass you need not just a sacred text but an easily portable one..."

About the Author

Joan Konner is a veteran, award-winning journalist in television and print. She served for nine years as Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she introduced and taught a course in "Covering Ideas," and was publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review from 1988 to 1999. Her most recent television production was "The Mystery of Love," a 2-hour documentary special broadcast on public television in December 2006. She has produced more than 50 documentaries for public and commercial television, including the legendary six part television documentary Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. She also founded Public Affairs Television in partnership with Bill Moyers, and served as President of the company and Executive Producer of such series as God and Politics, In Search of the Constitution, and The World of Ideas. Her work has been widely honored: in addition to 16 Emmys, she has won the Peabody Award; Alfred. I. duPont Award; three American Bar Association Awards; the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism's Alumni Award; and the New Jersey Press Women's Association Award for Outstanding Accomplishment. She has also been a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. She is now Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and lives with her husband in New York City.

Customer Reviews

OK, but popcorn reading
Not a bad collection, but I can only read a collection of one-to-two line quotes for so long. Very light reading. Good for the restroom, perhaps.

Good but not great
A quick read because there's not all that much actual material in the book. It has some interesting insights, some great humor,and a lot of empty space. I think the book would better if another section had been added with core essays on the subject. As it stands, you get too little book for the money.

I've "come out" as a disbeliever...
...and it's so nice to find that better minds than mine have been, and are disbelievers, too. Albert Einstein, for instance. A friend of mine used to say that the only reason he believed in God was that Einstein was quoted as saying, "'God does not play dice with the universe.' And if it was good enough for Albert, it was good enough for him."

Well, Einstein may have said it, but the Atheist's Bible has a few terse quotes from Albert Einstein saying, "no, I've been misquoted." That's right. Albert Einstein was a non-believer.

If you've ever wondered whether you were the only non-believer in the world; a closet heretic like me, then this book will be a God-send (oops!) for you. Atheists, you can come out now and join the company of Lord Byron, Mark Twain, Thomas Paine, George Bernard Shaw, Gertrude Stein, et al. You won't be burned for your disbelief's.