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Victor Hugo There is in every village a torch - the teacher;
and an extinguisher - the clergyman.
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Lao Tzu He who feels pricked, must first have been a bubble.
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Eric Idle Eric Idle All things dull and ugly,
All creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty,
The Lord God made the lot.

Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom.
He made their horrid wings.

All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.

Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid--
Who made the spikey urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did!

All things scabbed and ulcerous,
All pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all.

Amen.

Lyrics: Eric Idle
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Navneeth D Navneeth D A belief which leaves no place for common sense is not a belief; it is a superstition.
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Baron von Knifty If truth was sitting on a fence and howling like a cat, religion would throw a shoe at it.
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Baron von Knifty What you’re jumping over when you take that leap of faith is originality and free thinking.
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spmafrik the last step to the evolution of religions will be the extinction of religions.
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Wai Kin God is a placebo.
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Gene Roddenberry Creator of Star Trek "I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will--and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. 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."
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Groucho Marx Those are my beliefs. If you don't like them, I have others.
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Art Why should I look to an "after life," when I can find both heaven and hell here?
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Tryfid If people had to be aware adult to consent in their religious education, no one would take the story of zombie called Christ seriously.
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EA Miller EA Miller Humanity will truly be enlightened when they realize that all religions are total BS and do much more damage than good.

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EA Miller EA Miller Anything that requires "faith" instead of "actual proof" throws rational thinking right out the window.
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EA Miller EA Miller It has been my experience that people covered with tattoos and body piercings are often a hell of a lot less judgmental and much more accepting of others' differences than your average Bible thumping Christian who wears a suit to church every Sunday.
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osirisnut osirisnut Priests are freaks in frocks, and nuns are horrors in habits. A.A.I
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osirisnut osirisnut The question is, was Mother Theresa good or evil?. The answer, of course, she was very good at being evil.
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Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins Religion is a pernicious and malicious distraction from true education and edification.
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EA Miller EA Miller The Bible is cool with slavery. It’s just a normal, acceptable part of life. None of the main characters in the Bible—God, Abraham, Moses, David, or even Jesus ever once condemn it. All claims of the “good book” being any kind of a moral guide are highly exaggerated!

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EA Miller EA Miller Odd how pastors say “god is truly too complex for we humans to ever describe” and yet they have no problem speaking for that very same god on many an occasion.
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EA Miller EA Miller Religion hinders our curiosity and quest for truth. “God did it” is a scientific dead end. It is anti-science.
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EA Miller EA Miller The blatant ignorance of those following Christianity confounds me. These people are worshiping a fictional character (Jesus) who was literally created from a composite of other fictional deities that also had a virgin birth, went through a passion, and rose from the dead and were written about centuries before Christianity was even contrived.
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EA Miller EA Miller During a worldwide pandemic, the US President is demanding that his state governors reopen churches (a known place for viruses to spread very rapidly) simply to cater to his evangelical base with no regard for human lives!
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EA Miller EA Miller Israel…

It's an important city in the ancient myth book and doesn't deserve any more respect than any other country. The fact that it gets favored status at the expense of other countries sickens me.
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis)
(admin)
 There's a subtle difference between religious brainwashing and education. One can question education without fear of rejection - or worse.
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EA Miller EA Miller The Adam and Eve tale isn’t anything except ancient writers’ ignorance of biology.
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EA Miller EA Miller “Satan is the originator of storms.” -Charles Stanley, televangelist

“Wait a minute… Didn’t God create Satan?” -Me
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EA Miller EA Miller “Atheists are not capable of telling a funny joke.” -Father Mitch Pacwa (TV Priest)

“Perhaps I should send you the George Carlin collection on DVD for your birthday!” -Me

[Obviously he's never heard Dave Allen] ~ Admin.
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis)
(admin)
 God gave us everything, apparently. Even schizophrenia so that we could talk with him.
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EA Miller EA Miller Faith is for weak minds who have given up on the truth.
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osirisnut osirisnut There is the Catholic church the Presbyterian church the Baptist church the Lutheran church the Mormon church the Anglican church etc. Shit doesn't cease to be shit just because it changes its name.
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EA Miller EA Miller Religious people are willing to ignore a mountain of evidence that completely contradicts their beliefs for the sole purpose of clinging to those beliefs.
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osirisnut osirisnut Religion sells a cure for a disease that doesn't exist. Clive James.
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EA Miller EA Miller Religious organisations that don’t pay a euro in taxes should have absolutely no say in government policies and most definitely not receive any funding from a government. Yet they do on both accounts.
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Pat Simons Pat Simons If you divide the age of the universe, around 13.7 billion, by the age of the human race dating from when our puny ancestors first descended from the trees and began walking upright, around 3 million, you get the number .00002. This is the percentage of the time the human story has occupied in the history of the universe. The Christian era occupies a tiny fraction of that small number. It has all played out on an insignificant speck of dust in an unimaginably vast universe. And yet, apologists persist in trying to glean their morality from myths dating from the infancy of human civilization. Religion tries to make humanity out to be more than it is, and in the process leaves humanity being less than it can be.
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EA Miller EA Miller At current estimate, there are over 400 billion exoplanets in our galaxy. Of those 400 billion, approximately a billion have the possibility of containing life forms. Considering the vastness of these statements, why would anyone in their right mind think a god would care so much about one insignificant planet and ignore all the rest?
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EA Miller EA Miller Love between two consenting adults is love, so please keep your backward-ass religious beliefs to yourself.
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osirisnut osirisnut If you give a dog food and water it thinks you are a god. If you give a cat food and water it thinks it's god.
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osirisnut osirisnut A woman was complaining about how hot it was and then says. "I'm sweating like a hooker in a Catholic Church".
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EA Miller EA Miller "Have faith" simply means believe me even though I don't have a single shred of evidence.
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osirisnut osirisnut A priest is driving a nun back to the nunnery, he stops at traffic lights and his hand touches the nun's thigh, the nun says "Father remember luke 14:10". The priest is embarrassed and removes his hand when he reaches his church he checks psalm 14:10 and it says. Friend, go up higher. Then you will have glory.
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EA Miller EA Miller Recent quote read by a Catholic priest on television:

“There are but two roads, one that leads to Rome and one that leads to atheism.”

What I heard:

“There are but two roads, one that leads to a misogynistic, homophobic cult whose leaders reside in a golden fortress and one that leads to reality and rational thinking.”
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EA Miller EA Miller If given the chance, I am absolutely certain that many religious groups would have no problem taking away the civil rights of individuals that took decades or even centuries to obtain and immediately insert their cult values in place of them. Through their warped perspective, they would dub this “religious freedom”.
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EA Miller EA Miller The major religions in the world today were founded in the prescience era of fairy-tale, myth, and faith in the absence of evidence. Their leaders despise those who ask for proof of their god’s existence because there simply isn’t any.
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EA Miller EA Miller Christians, let’s get one thing straight… Atheists are not angry with your god. We never have been. We simply don’t believe in him or any other gods for that matter.
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Dr. Idel Dreimer Dr. Idel Dreimer Religion has always been the "secret police" of human culture: God is the spy in the sky -- the omniscient and omnipotent enforcer of social norms. (Observation #1739)
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osirisnut osirisnut Every Sunday throughout the world people gather in their respective places of worship. This is a sign, a sign of MASS stupidity.
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Jed King Jed King It's so strange that the greatest book of fiction ever written is never read by the very people who believe in it!
JK 2019.
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EA Miller EA Miller If an advanced being created all of humanity and wanted people to live in a specific way according to its directive, it certainly would be as clear and concise as possible with absolutely NO interpretation required. Period.
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis)
(admin)
 No need for prayers to any god. Just pray to a dog turd and you'll find the results are EXACTLY the same.
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Gregarious Gregarious If you don’t control your own mind and ‘Think for Yourself’ … someone else will do it for you.
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Voltaire Voltaire Think for yourself and let others enjoy the same privilege to do so too.
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Daniel Langdon Daniel Langdon The best advice I ever received came from my High School Physics Teacher, "Question Everything"!
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The Thinking Atheist The Thinking Atheist Assume nothing. Question everything. And start thinking for yourself!
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Carl Sagan Carl Sagan For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion – however satisfying, comforting, and reassuring that is.
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Gregarious Gregarious We don’t need to just tolerate each other; we need to accept each other. We can accept others without necessarily accepting their views and beliefs but respecting their right to hold such beliefs. When those beliefs however are forced upon us by law-makers because of lobbying by religionists, and they start impacting us in negative and harmful ways, we must speak out. “Freedom of Religion” is as important as “Freedom from Religion”. We are all free to express that “freedom” in our own way. It is not freedom for everyone if we force our religious views on those who don’t believe them nor accept them.
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Gregarious Gregarious There is NO Freedom of Religion without Freedom from Religion.
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Gregarious Gregarious The rights of the minority should never be subject to the whims of the majority.
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Gregarious Gregarious The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Wittgenstein If you choose to live a religious life, it mustn't be that you talk a lot about your religion, and especially not proselytize about it and force your beliefs on others, but simply accept that your manner of life is different from those with whom your views are not shared. It is only if you have an open mind, try to be helpful to other people, and are open to constructive dialog, will you in the end help each other find the “Truth”.
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