If all atheists left the USA, it would lose 93% of the National Academy of Sciences, but less than 1% of the prison population
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Ludwig Feuerbach
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.
- Ludwig Feuerbach
Ludwig Feuerbach
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Pastor claimed his penis had been anointed with the “Holy Spirit divine semen” and raped his faithful
It does give the phrase “coming to Jesus” a whole new meaning.
Sobrinho Valdeci Picanto, 59, was arrested in Apore, Goiás, Brazil, for raping several women attending his church. He gave as an excuse that his penis had been consecrated with “divine semen of the Holy Spirit.”
A 23-year-old young woman, who prefers to remain anonymous said, “He has convinced us that only God could come into our lives through the mouth.”
Read the rest at m24digital.com
Pastor claimed his penis had been anointed with the “Holy Spirit divine semen” and raped his faithful
Prof Uri Nassol
Why should I have faith in god… he obviously doesn’t have faith in me! He’s still got the hump because someone pinched one of his apples thousands of years ago… and he expects us to keep saying how great he is!!!
- Prof Uri Nassol
Prof Uri Nassol
Louisiana Republican: When I Voted for State Funds to go to Religious Schools, I Didn’t Mean Muslim Ones
In Louisiana, Republican Governor Bobby Jindal pushed for a voucher program that would allow state funds to be used to pay for religious schools. It’s unconstitutional, it’s a way to use taxpayer money to fund someone’s faith, and it was a bad idea to begin with.
Read more at patheos.com
Louisiana Republican: When I Voted for State Funds to go to Religious Schools, I Didn’t Mean Muslim Ones
DaVinci Code
“God is a hallucination for those to weak to accept that life is meaningless”
- DaVinci Code
DaVinci Code
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
H. L. Mencken
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart
- H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
Mark Twain
“The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”
- Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Monday, January 28, 2013
Isaac Asimov
“Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, “I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn’t that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?”
- Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Qur’an quotes - The best ones
| ”Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not.” – Quran 2:216 |
| “…make war on the leaders of unbelief…Make war on them: God will chastise them at your hands and humble them. He will grant you victory over them…” – Surah 9:12 |
| “A woman is worth one-half a man.” – 2:282 |
| “Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Quran: and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme.” – Quran 9:111 |
| “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’” – Ibn Ishaq: 327 |
| “and males are to inherit twice that of females.” – 4:11 |
| “As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help.” – Quran 3:56 |
| “Believers, do not make friends with any but your own people…They desire nothing but your ruin….You believe in the entire Book…When they meet you they say: ‘We, too, are believers.’ But when alone, they bite their finger-tips with rage.” – Surah 3:118, 119 |
| “Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them.” – Surah 9:121 |
| “Believers, take neither Jews nor Christians for your friends.” – Surah 5:51 |
| “Believing women must lower their gaze and be modest, cover themselves with veils, and not reveal themselves except to their husbands, relatives, children, and slaves.” – 24:31 |
| “Blessed are the believers…who restrain their carnal desires (except with their wives and slave-girls, for these are lawful to them)…These are the heirs of Paradise…” – Surah 23:1-5 |
| “But if they turn away (from Islam), take hold of them and kill them wherever you find them.” – Surah 4:88-89 |
| “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” – Quran 9:29 |
| “Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it.” – Surah 2:216 |
| “Forbidden to you are…married women, except those you own as slaves.” – Surah 4:20-, 24 |
| “How do you disbelieve in Allah, seeing that you were dead and he gave you life! Then he will cause you to die…” – Quran 2:28 |
| “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them” – Quran 8:12 |
| “If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, Take the evidence of four (Reliable) witnesses from amongst you against them; and if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them, or Allah ordain for them some (other) way.” – Quran 4:15 |
| “If you do not fight, He will punish you sternly, and replace you by other men.” – Surah 9:37 |
| “Killing Unbelievers is a small matter to us” – Tabari 9:69 |
| “Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God’s religion shall reign supreme.” – Surah 8:36 |
| “Men are in charge of women, because Allah made men to be better than women. Refuse to have sex with women from whom you fear rebellion, and scourge them.” – 4:34 |
| “Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded. But as to those women on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great” – Surah 4:34 |
| “Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband’s) absence what Allah would have them guard. As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (Next), refuse to share their beds, (And last) beat them (lightly); but if they return to obedience, seek not against them Means (of annoyance): For Allah is Most High, great (above you all).” – Quran 4:34 |
| “Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward” – Quran 4:95 |
| “O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place.” – Quran 9:38-39 |
| “Seek out your enemies relentlessly.” – Surah 4:103 |
| “Slay them wherever you find them…Idolatry is worse than carnage…Fight against them until idolatry is no more and God’s religion reigns supreme.” – Surah 2:190 |
| “The Jews and Christians say: ‘We are the children of God and His loved ones.’ Say: ‘Why then does He punish you for your sins?” – Surah 5:18 |
| “The Prophet… was asked whether it was permissible to attack the pagan warriors at night with the probability of exposing their women and children to danger. The Prophet replied, “They (i.e. women and children) are from them (i.e. pagans).” – Bukhari 52:256 |
| “The wives of Mohammad are not like other women. They must not leave their houses.” – 33:32-33 |
| “We ordained therein for them: “Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear. Tooth for tooth, and wounds equal for equal.”” – Quran: 5:45 |
| “You can’t have sex with married women, unless they are slaves obtained in war (with whom you may rape or do whatever you like).” – 4:24 |
| Allah’s Apostle said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.” – Bukhari 52:177 |
Richard Dawkins
“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Galileo Galilei
I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them
- Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
James Madison
What has been Christianity’s fruits ?
Superstition, Bigotry and Persecution
- James Madison
James Madison
Sunday, January 27, 2013
DailyAtheist
Atheist – a person created from the image of God, but who doubts the credibility of the original.
- DailyAtheist
DailyAtheist
Most overrated philosopher of the 20th century
There is currently a Twitter survey going on to establish a list of favorite philosophers of all time, organized by Oxford University Press. I don’t know the results yet, but my entries would have to be David Hume (1st prize), Aristotle (2nd) and Bertrand Russell (3rd). The survey inspired me to use the Phi2Phi appto ask the mirror question: who are the most overrated philosophers? I wanted to keep the survey manageable, so I restricted it to 20th century philosophers who are no longer alive. Hopefully, we can assume that enough time has passed to begin to formulate a preliminary assessment of their worth. Besides, if they are dead they can’t sue…
Most overrated philosopher of the 20th century
I don"t normally say facts....
I don’t normally say facts to religious people, but when i do – they ignore them
I don"t normally say facts....
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Craig M. Gay
“As Peter Berger has noted, the strategy of apologizing for Christian faith by trying to demonstrate its social utility is always eventually self-liquidating. Sooner of later people realize that a great many of the supposedly practical and secular benefits of the Christian religion can be had more easily without religion…The logic of practical atheism may well be more deeply ingrained in the evangelical tradition than conservatives perhaps have realized.”
- Craig M. Gay
Craig M. Gay
Bill Gates
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
- Bill Gates
Bill Gates
Science vs Religious Progress V2
Just like in the previous post about Science vs Religion, only the quality of picture changes in the Religious image
Science vs Religious Progress V2
Science vs Religious progress
As you can notice, only the quality of picture changed on Religion’s side
Science vs Religious progress
Atheists Supply Less Than 1% Of Prison Populations, While Christians Make -Up 75%
Fifty-two percent of people belong to no church, yet live clean lives and supply less than 1% of the total criminal population. So much for religious indoctrination
Prison Populations consist of less than 1% Atheists and about 75% Christians, the rest are a combination of other religions.
Reminds of this poster i posted earlier.
The more i get into it, the more i realize it’s easy to blame god for the ‘sins’ you do.
I wish people would focus more on this life rather than wait for the next life to be responsible.
It’s surprising what percentage individuals ask me, “Are you an Atheist ? – Well, I guess you
have no conscience regarding committing crime then.
They are far from reality. In fact, if we examine the population of our prisons, we
see a completely different picture:
During 10 years in Sing-Sing, those executed for murder were 65% Catholics,
26% Protestants, 6% Hebrew, 2% Pagan, and less than 1/3 of 1% non-religious.
In “The New criminology gy”, Max D. Schlapp and Edward E. Smith say that two
generations of statisticians found that the ratio of convicts without
religious training is about 1/10 of 1%. W. T. Root, professor of
psychology at the Univ. of Pittsburgh, examined 1,916 prisoners and said
“Indifference to religion, due to thought, strengthens character,” adding
that Unitarians, Agnostics, Atheists and Free-Thinkers are absent from
penitentiaries or nearly so.
Dr. Christian, Superintendant of the NY State Reformatories, checked
22,000 prison inmates and found only 4 college graduates. In “Who’s Who”
91% were college graduates, and he commented that “intelligence and
knowledge produce right living” and that “crime is the offspring of
superstition and ignorance.”
Steiner and Swancara surveyed Canadian prisons and found 1,294 Catholics,
435 Anglicans, 241 Methodists, 135 Baptists, and 1 Unitarian.
Surveyed Massachusetts reformatories found every inmate religious, carefully
herded by chaplins.
Michigan had 82,000 Baptists and 83,000 Jews in their state population.
But in the prisons, there were 22 times as many Baptists as Jews, and 18 times
as many Methodists as Jews. In Sing-Sing, there were 1,553 total inmates with
855 of them Catholics (over half), 518 Protestants, 177 Jews and 8 non-
religious. There’s a very interesting qualified statistic.
In Joliet, there were 2,888 Catholics, 1,020 Baptists, 617 Methodists and
0 non-religious.
Steiner first surveyed 27 states, and found 19,400 Christians, 5,000 with
no preference, and only 3 Agnostics (one each in Connecticut, New Hampshire,
and Illinois). A later, more complete survey found 60,605 Christians, 5,000
Jews, 131 Pagans, 4,000 no preference, and only 3 Agnostics.
In the East, over 64% of inmates are Catholics. In the national prison
population they average 50%. A national census found Catholics 15%. They
count from the diaper up. Hardly 12% are old enough to commit a crime.
Half of these are women. That leaves an adult Catholic population of 6%
supplying 50% of the prison population.
In one 29-state survey, Steiner found 15 unbelievers, Spirtualists,
Theosophists, Deists, Pantheists and 1 Agnostic among nearly 83,000 inmates.
Calling all 15 “anti-christians” made it one half person to each state.
Elmira reformatory overshadowed all, with nearly 31,000 inmates, including
15,694 Catholics (half), and 10,968 Protestants, 4,000 Jews, 325 refusing
to answer, and 0 unbelievers.
Liverpool, England produces three percent as many young criminals as
Birmingham, a larger city, 28% coming from Catholic schools.
What does this tell you about religious school systems or claims that religion
is the teacher of morals?
Atheists Supply Less Than 1% Of Prison Populations, While Christians Make -Up 75%
Tens of thousands march in Washington anti-abortion rally
Interesting the most of the pictures show girls than are too young to have kids.
A massive anti-abortion march hit Washington, DC, on Friday as tens of thousands opposed to the right to choose descended on the National Mall to protest Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1971 decision that legalized the termination of pregnancies.
Read more at RT.com
Tens of thousands march in Washington anti-abortion rally
Friday, January 25, 2013
Carl Sagan - A Glorious Dawn - Isn"t this the best song ever ?
Lyrics:[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe
Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time
The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way
The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature
I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky
But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions
The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has it’s own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world
[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit
From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas
[Sagan}
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we’ve waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting
Carl Sagan - A Glorious Dawn - Isn"t this the best song ever ?
Isaac Asimov
“Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, “I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn’t that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?”
- Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Not Allow Atheists To Graduate High School
A group of Arizona politicians — all Republicans, of course — have proposed a law (House Bill 2467) requiring public high school students to recite the following oath in order to graduate:
I, _______, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge these duties; So help me God.
Read More at patheos.com
Arizona Republicans Propose Bill That Would Not Allow Atheists To Graduate High School
Louis CK
“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”
- Louis CK
Louis CK
Niels Bohr
“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”
- Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Bible quotes - Good ones !
| “16 The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.” – Hosea 13:16 |
| “A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed” – Deuteronomy 22:13-21 |
| “A potion given to the Israelites by God is used to determine paternity. If the father is not the husband, an abortion occurs.” – Numbers 5:21-21, 27-28 |
| “A priest’s daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death.” – Leviticus 21:9 |
| “And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend.” – Jeremiah 19:9 |
| “And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.” – Leviticus 26:16 |
| “Blessed are they who bash your children’s head against a rock” – Psalm 137 |
| “Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being.” – Proverbs 20:30 |
| “Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die. Punish him with the rod and save his soul from death.” – Proverbs 23:13-14 |
| “Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” – Exodus 34:14 |
| “Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies. Like a slug melting away as it moves along, like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun.” – Psalm 58:3, 8 |
| “For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death.” – Exodus 35:2 |
| “Give no woman power over you to trample upon your dignity.” – Sirach 9:2 NAB |
| “Give them, O LORD — what wilt thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. E’phraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, I will slay their beloved children.” – Hosea 9:14, 16, RSV |
| “God’s law states that if a woman is pregnant and is to be executed there is to be no waiting for the fetus to be born. It is counted as part of the mother and she burned to death with it still in her womb” – Genesis 38:24 |
| “Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.” – Psalm 137:9 |
| “I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and laws they could not live by; I let them become defiled through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD.” – Ezekiel 20:25-26 |
| “If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property.” – Exodus 21:20-21 |
| “If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.” – Deuteronomy 21:18-21 |
| “If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.” – Leviticus 20:13 |
| “If an attack on a woman causes a miscarriage the attacker must pay a fine. If he causes serious damage to the mother it’s “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”” – Exodus 21:22-23 |
| “If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death.” – Leviticus 20:9 |
| “If your brother, the son of your father or of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the spouse whom you embrace, or your most intimate friend, tries to secretly seduce you, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” unknown to you or your ancestors before you, gods of the peoples surrounding you, whether near you or far away, anywhere throughout the world, you must not consent, you must not listen to him; you must show him no pity, you must not spare him or conceal his guilt. No, you must kill him, your hand must strike the first blow in putting him to death and the hands of the rest of the people following. You must stone him to death, since he has tried to divert you from Yahweh your God.” — Deuteronomy 13:7-11 |
| “In that day those the LORD has slaughtered will fill the earth from one end to the other. No one will mourn for them or gather up their bodies to bury them. They will be scattered like dung on the ground.” – Jeremiah 25:33 NLT |
| “Monetary values are assigned to lives according to age and gender. Lives under one month old have no value.” – Leviticus 27:6 |
| “No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.” – Deuteronomy 23:1 |
| “O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us 9 he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.” – Psalms 137:8-9 – 8 |
| “The LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon…. And there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.” – Exodus 12:29-30 |
| “The people of Samaria must bear their guilt because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword. Their little ones will be dashed open. Their pregnant women, ripped to pieces.” – Hosea 13:16 |
| “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.” – Proverbs 22:7 |
| “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment:for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.” – Deuteronomy 22:5. |
| “Unhappy with the wickedness of man, God killed every living thing on the planet except Noah’s family. Men, women, infants and animals drowned in unimaginable terror and agony.” – GENESIS chapters 6 & 7 |
| “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.” – Ephesians 5:22-24 |
| “You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.” — James 04:4 |
Isaac Asimov
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
- Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
Emille de Bergerac
Why isn’t god as sociable as he used to be in the bible. I mean back then he used to show up for every genocide and baby massacre. Nowadays you hardly ever see him anymore…well, except for those times where he’s appears to attention-starved old catholic ladies in the form of a god-shaped lasagne or jesus’ face in a tortilla. Apart from that he never visits anymore.
- Emile de Bergerac
Emille de Bergerac
You don"t exist in an infinite number of places, say scientists
(Phys.org)—If you’ve read about how modern cosmology may imply that, in an infinite universe, the existence of planets and the life forms that live on them must be repeated an infinite number of times, you may have been just a little bit skeptical. So are a couple scientists from Spain, who have posted a paper at arXiv.org criticizing the concept of the infinite repetition of histories in space, an idea closely related to the concepts of “alternate histories,” “parallel universes,” and the “many worlds interpretation,” among others.
http://phys.org
You don"t exist in an infinite number of places, say scientists
Godfrey Zoan
So god can make a universe over 28 billion light years across containing billions of stars and planets just so a few apes on one single, insignificant world can worship him… but
he can’t be bothered to help a starving baby?
- Godfrey Zoan
Godfrey Zoan
Coral Yoshi
So you really think that God would plant a bunch of bones in the earth to test your faith? Either you’re in denial or God has some serious self-esteem issues.
- Coral Yoshi
Coral Yoshi
Robert A. Heinlein
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Christopher Hitchens
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it’s the surrender of reason, it’s the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It’s our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. … Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated
- Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
Church "sheltered abuser"
A PRIEST accused of sexually abusing altar boys throughout the 1980s was sheltered by the Catholic Church in the parish of Father Finian Egan, who is facing charges of indecent assault and rape.
A report released last week detailed the accusations against the priest, who allegedly assaulted boys in the dioceses of Armidale and Parramatta between 1981 and 1992.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au
Church "sheltered abuser"
Waleed Al-Husseini
To most christians, the bible is like a Software License. Nobody actually reads it.
They just scroll to the bottom and click “I agree.”
- Waleed Al-Husseini
Waleed Al-Husseini
Penn and Teller
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to any actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
- Penn Jillette and Teller
Penn and Teller
In malpractice case, Catholic hospital argues fetuses aren’t people
Lori Stodghill was 31-years old, seven-months pregnant with twin boys and feeling sick when she arrived at St. Thomas More hospital in Cañon City on New Year’s Day 2006. She was vomiting and short of breath and she passed out as she was being wheeled into an examination room. Medical staff tried to resuscitate her but, as became clear only later, a main artery feeding her lungs was clogged and the clog led to a massive heart attack. Stodghill’s obstetrician, Dr. Pelham Staples, who also happened to be the obstetrician on call for emergencies that night, never answered a page. His patient died at the hospital less than an hour after she arrived and her twins died in her womb.
Catholic hospital argues fetuses aren’t people
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In malpractice case, Catholic hospital argues fetuses aren’t people
Predator priest returns to duty
A leading Australian priest who sexually preyed on a disabled and vulnerable woman on Sydney’s north shore for 14 years has been allowed to return to preaching and running community groups at one of the nation’s busiest churches.
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Predator priest returns to duty
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Mark Fairclough
If god is the alpha and the omega. The begining and the end, knows what has passed and what is to come, like it states in the bible, why do people pray and think it will make any difference
- Mark Fairclough
Mark Fairclough
Most Popular Atheist Quotes
Why is it often that, when someone points out the lies of another person, the person who lied gets angry, rather than abashed. Never is this more apparent than when the lie pointed out is a lie to oneself, and the anger never more fierce than when the lie is one of religion.
- G. Scott Wells
Atheism is a requirement for a complete human being. Religion is a crutch that is shackled to you, one you never really needed in the first place, but were convinced by others that you couldn’t live without. Once you discover it’s only an illusion, that it’s not even a real crutch, you discard it gladly.
- Brent Yaciw
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson
If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.
- Robert G Ingersoll (paraphrase)
Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
- Gene Roddenberry
“Hence today I believe I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator”
- Adolph Hitler
“I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job.”
- George W. Bush
“There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.
- James Morrow
A country dominated by televangelism would be unrecognizable to the Founding Fathers, who envisioned religion as personal and spiritua, not social and political. No particular variety of religion was intended to control the political agenda, to set the community’s moral tone or to judge who are the true believers and members of our society. But this is precisely the objective of the electric church
- Razelle Frankel
A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.
- David Stevens
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
- Samuel Clemens
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes
- James K. Feibleman
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
- Thomas Paine
All religions have been made by men.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
- Matthew Arnold
All thinking men are atheists.
- Ernest Hemingway
And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter.
- Thomas Jefferson
As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don’t know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don’t know, 50,000,000 years of that I’d start to get a little bored.
- Rick Reynolds
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
- William Blake
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, ‘atheist’ is a term that should not ever exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a ‘non astrologer’ or a ‘non-alchemist’. We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs. An atheist is simply a person who believes that the 260 million Americans (87 percent of the population) claiming to ‘never doubt the existence of God’ should be obliged to present evidence for his existence-and, indeed, for his BENEVOLENCE, given the relentless destruction of innocent human beings we witness in the world each day.
- Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between church and State.
- Thomas Jefferson
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein
Born again?! No, I’m not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
- Dennis Miller
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
- Mark Twain
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
- Voltaire
Chritianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.
- Thomas Jefferson
Creationists make it sound like a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night
- Isaac Asimov
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another sour sort of fun to ridicule them the morning after, when they discover that their calculations were a little off. But, just as with Marxists, there are some among them who are working hard to ‘hasten the inevitable,’ not merely anticipating the End Days with joy in their hearts, but taking political action to bring about the conditions they think are the prerequisites for that occasion.
- Dennett, Breaking the Spell, pg 338
I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.
- Jules Renard
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
- Voltaire
If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then why did you tell me?
- Eskimo
Everything is what it is because it got that way.
- D’arcy Thompson
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions.
- Frater Ravus
Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
- Dan Barker, former evangelist
Faith is believing in that which I know ain’t so.
- Mark Twain
Faith is the fatigue resulting from the attempt to preserve God’s integrity instead of one’s own.
- Matt Berry
Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Few intelligent Christians can still hold to the idea that the Bible is an infallible Book, that it contains no linguistic errors, no historical discrepancies, no antiquated scientific assumptions, not even bad ethical standards. Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages. The existence of thousands of variations of texts makes it impossible to hold the doctrine of a book verbally infallible. Some might claim for the original copies of the Bible an infallible character, but this view only begs the question and makes such Christian apologetics more ridiculous in the eyes of the sincere man.
- Elmer Homrighausen, Christianity in America
For there is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet, II.ii
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
- Edward Abbey
God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
- Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Contact
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
- Samuel Johnson
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
- John Lennon
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of God
- Unknown
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
- Laurence J. Peter
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.
- William Drummond
Heaven will be a great place as long as you keep the christians out.
- G. Janus
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
- Robert Heinlein
How come when it’s us is an abortion and when it’s a chicken is an omelet?
- George Carlin
How do I know the Bible isn’t the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand…considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!
- Bill Hicks.
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
- Bertrand Russell
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.
- D. Dale Gulledge
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
- Albert Einstein
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
- Thomas Alva Edison
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect, had intended for us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo
I don’t know anyone less Jesus like than Christians.
- Bill Maher
I don’t see any god up here first man in space, while in space.
- Yuri Gagarin
I have as much authority as the pope, I just don’t have as many people that believe it.
- George Carlin
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘Oh, Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ and God granted it.
- Voltaire
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
- Mohandas Gandhi
I recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian. The two were engaged in disputation and the theologian used the old quip about a philosopher resembling a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat—which wasn’t there. That may be, said the philosopher: but a theologian would have found it.
- Julian Huxley, The Creed of a Scientific Humanist
I refuse to prove that I exist says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing. Oh, says man, but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn’t it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don’t. Q.E.D. Oh, I hadn’t thought of that, says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
- Oscar Wilde
I would never want to be the member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
I’d rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
- Gerry Spencer
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
If god is the alpha and the omega. The begining and the end, knows what has passed and what is to come, like it states in the bible, why do people pray and think it will make any difference.
- Mark Fairclough
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
- Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.
- Theodore Dreiser
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
- Epicurus
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”
- Edmond de Goncourt
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
- Art Hoppe
If we are to believe the Bible, god created a flood that nearly wiped out all of mankind, taking genocide to epic proportions. Why then is god worshiped and Hitler, who committed genocide on a smaller scale, labeled evil for similar acts?
- Scott Williams
If we expect God to subscribe to one religion at the exclusion of all the others, then we should expect damnation as a matter of chance. This should give Christians pause when expounding their religious beliefs, but it does not.
- Sam Harris
If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve its own interests.
- Baron d’Holbach, The System of Nature
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
- Gregory House
I’m proud to be an atheist – it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.
- Dan Barker
Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find my self in – an interesting hole I find my self in – fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!’ This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it’s still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
- Douglass Adams
In a dangerous world, there will always be more people around whose prayers for their own safety have been answered than those whose prayers have not.
- Nicholas Humphrey’s Law of the Efficacy of Prayer
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
- Friederich Nietzsche
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beutiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
- Douglas Adams
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- Carl Sagan
It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere… Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein
It’s fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.
- Penn Jillette
Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.
- Albert Einstein
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
- Bill Gates
Let’s face a historical truth: we have never had a free market, we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with big government when it served their needs.
- Howard Zinn
Let’s face it; God has an ego problem, why do we always have to worship him?
- Bill Maher
Lighthouses are more helpful then churches.
- Benjamin Franklin
Lighthouses are more useful than Churches.
- Benjamin Franklin
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfullly as when they do it from a religious conviction
- Blaise Pascale
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
- Robert A Heinlein
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest
- Denis Diderot.
Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23:1, if your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord.
- Donald Morgan
My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
- William Orville Douglas
Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.
- Baron d’Holbach, Good Sense
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity
- Robert Green Ingersoll
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
- George Orwell
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
- Robert Heinlein
People who don’t like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn’t have such funny beliefs.
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
- Anonymous
Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.
- Ambroce Bierce
Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived.
- Isaac Asimov
Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.
- Frank Zappa
Religion can never reform mankind, because Religion is slavery.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people.
- Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney
Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man — living in the sky — who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time! ..But He loves you.
- George Carlin
Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.
- Jose Carrillo
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet”
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration–courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
- H. L. Mencken
Religion is not fate, religion is fake, spirituality comes from the heart not from the pages of some out dated book written by mere men
- Madd Maxxx
Religion is so absurd that it comes close to imbecility.
- H. L. Mencken
Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Religion is the opium of the masses.
- Karl Marx
Religion is the opium of the masses.
- Karl Marx
Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
- Ambrose Bierce
Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies.
- Thomas Jefferson
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.
- Rabia Al-Basri
So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. Religion is all bunk.
- Thomas Alva Edison
Sunday school: a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
- H.L. Mencken
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
- Mark Twain
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically refused to believe in a god, to heaven.
- Nicholas Yee
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness
- Joseph Conrad
The Bible is a book that has been read more, and examined less, than any book that ever existed.
- Thomas Paine
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
- Friederich Nietzsche
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.
- Ferdinand Magellan
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
The family that prays together…is brainwashing their children.
- Albert Einstein
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
- Richard Dawkins
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
- Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, ch. 2.
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.
- Garrett Hardin
The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
- Huang Po
The moment we admit that our beliefs are attempts to represent states of the world, we see that they must stand in right relation to the world to be valid.
- Sam Harris, The End Of Faith
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
- Socrates.
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on nothing; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing.
- Thomas Paine, in The Age Of Reason, quoted with approval by David Mills in Atheist Universe, ch. 6.
The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
- Friederich Nietzsche
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can change this.
- Albert Einstein
The world holds two classes of men – intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
- Abu Ala Al-Maari
The world is not a prison house but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said Let us pray, and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible.
- Desmond M. Tutu, Religious Human Rights and the Bible
There is not enough love and kindness in the world to give any of it away to imaginary beings.
- Friederich Nietzsche
There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
- Frank Zappa
This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it.
- John Adams
Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn’t anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters—and you know how reporters are. They’ll do anything for a story.
- Andy Rooney
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit attrocities.
- Voltaire
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
- Marquis De Sade
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
- Eric Hoffer
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
- Charles William Stubbs
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen! If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it.
- Dan Barker
Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.-
- Christopher Hitchens, god is not great, ch. 15.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
- Samuel Johnson
We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice and good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us.
- Hume, TNHR
We may conclude, therefore, that, in all nations, which have embraced polytheism, the first ideas of religion arose not from a contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life, and from the incessant hopes and fears, which actuate the human mind.
- Hume, The Natural History of Religion
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing/ all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
- Gene Roddenberry
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beutiful and his children smart.
- H.L. Mencken
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn’t been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.
- Catherine Fahringer
When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
- Isaac Asimov
When you understand why you don’t believe in other people’s gods, you will understand why I don’t believe in yours.
- Albert Einstein
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t.
- George Bernard Shaw
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg
Without religion, we’d have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Stephen Weinburg
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
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