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Accidentalfaith Faith is a gift delivered only to the ignorants.
Xtian Boy, these theists sure are violent towards atheists like us.
So that's what they teach at the church. No wonder I'm unlike them.
Dave Allen On his education by the Catholic church.
Priest - "Jesus died on a cross for your sins"
"When was that?"
"2000 years ago"
"Don't blame me I'm only 4, for heavens sake"
Rafael Vidaurre Believers say atheists are close minded. Im confused.
close-minded: "stubbornly unreceptive to new ideas", it is not a new idea to believe what you have been hearing from everyone since you were born.
Frederick Douglass, escaped slave I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Mr.IHateGod. George W Bush claimed God told him to go to Iraq. Looks like the Lord himself is in for the oil aswell..
Vancoqt Now we have more than six billion creators with more in the waiting and coming.
George Carlin (New York Times, 20 August 1995 ) I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my instincts. They gave me the tools to reject my faith. They taught me to question and think for myself and to believe in my instincts to such an extent that I just said, "This is a wonderful fairy tale they have going here, but it’s not for me."
Calliope Muse Theists are forever killing in the name of their god. They would have us believe that atheists have killed more than they have. Nobody ever killed in the name of atheism. If Karl Marx, the intellectual founder of Marxism and communism, repudiated atheism as meaningless and no longer needed, how then could atheism be considered the cause of the atrocities committed under communism?
Gary Bauer (religious‐right FRC) We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There’s a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody’s values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our children what to believe.
Isaac Asimov (Asimov's Guide To The Bible) As it happens, Josephus, who mentions John the Baptist, does not mention Jesus. There is, to be sure, a paragraph in his history of the Jews which is devoted to Jesus, but it interrupts the flow of the discourse and seems suspiciously like an afterthought. Scholars generally believe this to have been an insertion by some early Christian editor who, scandalized that Joesphus should talk of the period without mentioning the Messiah, felt the insertion to be a pious act.
My cultural anthropology professor "On a pop quiz, I once instructed my students to describe the difference between a cult and a religion. One student, who obviously had not done the reading, wrote, 'About 300 years.' I think he will go far."
Brent Allsop Imagine encouraging [a child] to participate in such "twisted" rituals and worshiping of tortuous crucifixes and such like this from birth. No wonder we have so many hateful and sadistic people in our society.
Keith S. Cornish Scientific research confirms that humans are a link in the evolutionary life chain. There is no credible evidence for the existence of an immortal supernatural element. Our only life is here and now.
Make it worthy of a moral person.
Unknown Blasphemy is a victimless crime.
Unknown Helping hands are more use than paraying lips
Unknown I am tired of taking Bronze Age superstition seriously and listening to their pathetic rationalizations as to why the Bible doesn't really mean what it clearly says. We are supposed to take a talking snake at face value, but when it comes to Luke 14:33 they are all excuses and metaphors. It's irritating.
Michael Shermer Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
Halifins (youtube) How can paradise be without grief when you know billions of souls has been condemned to eternal damnation?
unknown If I am right, then religious fundamentalists will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
Anonymous Traveller: God has been mighty good to your fields, Mr. Farmer.
Farmer: You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn't around.
Anonymus The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair An atheist loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An atheist knows that heaven is something for which we should work now, here on earth, for all men together to enjoy.
Chaz Bufe (The American Heretic's Dictionary) Atheist: A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others.
Neil Hurle Most people would risk their own lives to save a stranger from a burning building. How strange that they imagine a god who is unwilling to do the same, even with no risk to himself.
Robert G. Ingersoll Robert G. Ingersoll The God of hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A god who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved; cursed, not worshipped. A heaven presided over by such a god must be below the meanest hell.
Catholic School Kindergartner to Teacher "I have one question for you, 'Who created God?'"
Neil Hurle If there is a god, and he knows everything in our minds, then atheists have absolutely nothing to fear. Why? Because we're just using our common sense... or is that a sin as well?
Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Ivan Ratoyevsky God & religion are nothing more than a comfort blanket against an exsistential reality.
Ivan Ratoyevsky Like space reality is so strange it cannot be fully comprehended by the human mind, it is un-graspable. Logic cannot make sense of it either thus the hole is attempted to be filled by religion & god.
Longinus The brave actively welcome challenge to their beliefs, the cowards resort to feeling criticism as insulting.
Larry Banks A child of a virginal birth is unbelieveable.
Joe O If God knew that Jesus would rise up and spend eternity with him and Jesus knew that he was going home to God...why was it a big deal that he died for us? It was a win win for them.
Ian Thorpe We must prove all facts, why is relgion an excuse?
Bill Hicks The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! "Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
sullyism Kids who have imaginary friends are cute; adults with imaginary friends are pathetic.
Ray Gilbert "Christians are only christians, not because they know what they believe, but because they don't believe what everyone else knows."
Trudy Lujon Becoming an atheist makes you feel like the only sane one in the lunatic asylum. All around you people are talking about invisible friends, imaginary places and how they have a ghost living somewhere behind their eyes that never dies!
Rene Descartes If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Esiah Zakite Esiah Zakite I wonder if that female suicide bomber is with Allah now, picking out her 72 virgins in paradise? Islam is under attack by the crusaders from... erm, Islam.
Anon Humans need god the same way that fish need aeroplanes
reverendMANSON "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
-George Carlin-
reverendMANSON I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
Tony Provenzano We don't just need "seperation of church and state", what we truly need, is seperation of church and planet!
Woody Allen (1935-) "Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday."
Alan Harvey Alan Harvey If God is aware of suffering but chooses not to act, he's hardly what you'd call a good Samaritan!
Stupid quote #1: Stupid quote #1: "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."

–Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615, during the trial of Galileo
Richard A. Weatherwax "You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.".
Prof Uri Nassol What's the difference between the pope and a voodoo witch doctor? None. Just two very different people proving how equally deluded all humans can be.
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Pat Simons Pat Simons If some book in the bible discussed quantum mechanics, germ theory, the nature of atoms, or the heliocentric solar system, then I might believe it was at least possible it was of divine origin. As it stands, there is not a single thing contained in the bible, or any other magic book, that could not have been produced by the minds of the MEN who wrote it. Women, it should be noted, can take great pride in never having contributed a single line to the bible.
EA Miller EA Miller “Native Americans thrived without the God of the Bible for thousands of years as they respected the people and nature around them. Their population was only decimated when Europeans brought disease, greed, violence, and of course Christianity.” -AT
EA Miller EA Miller Reality:

To base the occurrences in the world on empirical evidence

Religion:

To base the occurrences in the world on ancient fairy tales
osirisnut osirisnut If an omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent god existed and wanted you to know. "YOU WOULD KNOW".
osirisnut osirisnut Praying. Feeling good about doing absolutely fuck all.
EA Miller EA Miller The "made in God's image" always gives me a good laugh. Honestly, what use would God have for such things as hair, lungs, a digestive system, a bum, and men's genitalia?
EA Miller EA Miller Many religious people say never “trust” an atheist. Well, I say never trust a religious person since they are incapable of rational thought and have completely lost touch with reality.
EA Miller EA Miller Nothing spreads hatred, bigotry, self-entitlement, and anti-science sentiment faster than organized religion.
EA Miller EA Miller “Thoughts and prayers” have never fed a starving child, cured a disease, ended war, or stopped gun violence. They are utterly worthless.
Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis)
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Just like rhubarb in a cloche, gods will thrive in minds full of shit.
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