My favorite is "no one who is intelligent/a scientist can believe in God". Usually coupled with a statement about how atheists base all their arguments on evidence.
Albert Einstein didn't believe in a god in any sense that most people use the word. This is a quote from The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins:
"One of Einstein's most eagerly quoted remarks is 'Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.' But Einstein also said,
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
Einstein may not be the best argument (there are some excellent theistic physicists: I'll try to dig up some names for you.) Einstein seemed to not as much believe in God, or not believe in God, so much as believing in fucking with people's preconceptions of him.
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You know what I have to say to that?
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"One of Einstein's most eagerly quoted remarks is 'Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.' But Einstein also said,
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
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Also, tangent.