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Stephen Roberts |
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours |
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Edward Gibbon |
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." [adapted] |
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Richard Jeni |
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend |
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Epicurus |
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? |
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Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church |
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Emo Philips |
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. |
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Blaise Pascal |
Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions |
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Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer |
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Sam Harris |
George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd. |
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George Bernard Shaw |
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 |
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George Carlin |
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... and HE NEEDS MONEY! |
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Gene Roddenberry |
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 |
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Bertrand Russell |
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence |
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Anguished English -- student blooper |
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages. |
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| Unknown |
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. |
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Steven Weinberg |
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. |
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish |
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Doug McLeod |
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence |
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Carl Sagan |
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe. |
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George Weinberg |
Man created God in his image : intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent. |
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| Unknown |
"If god doesn't like the way I live, Let him tell me, not you." |
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Aldous Huxley |
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." |
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Delos B. McKown |
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike |
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Carl Sagan |
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence |
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| Bumper sticker |
You keep believing, I'll keep evolving |
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Ferdinand Magellan |
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 |
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| Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney |
Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people. |
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John Adams, 2nd President of the United States |
The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion. |
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Albert Einstein |
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; 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 |
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Napoleon Bonaparte |
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet |
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Voltaire |
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities |
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Benjamin Franklin |
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason |
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Justin Brown |
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated |
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People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs |
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Giulian Buzila |
History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god. |
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Justin Brown |
If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going? |
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Thomas Jefferson |
I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. |
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Gustaf Lindborg |
The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail |
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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. |
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? |
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William Drummond |
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave |
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers |
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| Unknown |
Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. |
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| 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. |
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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 |
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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, 1988 |
We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected. |
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| Russian Proverb |
Pray to God, fine; but keep rowing to shore. |
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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 |
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Arthur C. Clarke |
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. |
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Terry Pratchett |
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. |
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EA Miller |
Freedom is when you’re not tied down by mythological bullshit. |
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Dr. Idel Dreimer |
The chief concern of religion -- the most potent force in tribalism -- has always been power; its aim is to instil, as the mainspring of human action, the imagined preferences of the God or Gods. When behaviour is firmly premised on fantasy, it is resistant to reason, and is susceptible to manipulation by those who can most convincingly interpret the "desires" of Divinity. (Observation #1738) |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
While others believe that some entity that appeared from nowhere magicked the whole universe and everything in it inside a week by saying those magic words - "Let there be....", I believe in using common knowledge. |
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EA Miller |
Odd how the Egyptians, who kept wonderful records of events, never mentioned a thing about the spectacular adventures of Moses. |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
The god of the Old Testament falls down in the first few lines of Genesis. Jesus of the New Testament takes a little longer, but not much. |
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EA Miller |
“Searching the four corners of the Earth” is mere metaphor except of course for those numbskulls who actually believe that it’s flat! |
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EA Miller |
A Christian Televangelist recently said, “I need my own airplane because there are just some places you can’t fly commercial.” Sounds like a ringing endorsement for a conman who wants to live like a rock star. |
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EA Miller |
Religion often makes enemies out of people who might otherwise be your friends. |
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Pat Simons |
Say what you will about atheists, but at least we don't kill one another over what we think happens after we're dead. That's a theist thing. |
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) (admin) |
One's god only exists in one's mind. Nowhere else, just in one's mind. |
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