10 Movie Quotes about Atheism (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 30, 2026

Memorable quotes about atheism, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Is it not time you asked the gods? -They will not answer those who believe in them. Why should they answer one who doesn't?

Tim Turner as Jason in Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

2 You're not a man! You're a bishop, for God's sakes! -There is no God.

Ted Knight as Judge Elihu Smails in Caddyshack (1980)

3 I don't believe in God, I believe in science.

Esqueleto in Nacho Libre

4 Degenerate atheistic commie.

George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove

5 I'm not sure I worship anything. No. Admiration is the better word. Admiration for the beauty of a marble image.

Jacques Sernas as Paris Of Troy in Helen of Troy (1956)

6 There ain't no Pearly Gates. When you're dead, you're meat for the worms. That's all there is to it.

John Wayne as Davy Crockett in The Alamo (1960)

7 You mean you don't believe in no afterlife, no hereafter? -Tales for children. Bunkum and bosh.

Chill Wills as Beekeeper in The Alamo (1960)

8 An atheist is someone who denies altogether the existence of God. You're an agnostic.

Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko in Donnie Darko

9 I was driving around with this buddy of mine. He's a big atheist.

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

10 An atheist? -Don't sound so shocked. -I'm not. I was an atheist once. -You? -So we're both lapsed atheists?

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands