Hurd Hutchins

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I'm a member of the New York City Atheists and make up quotes about all kinds of subjects and also collect them.

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Religion: the triumph of wishful thinking over the discouraging hard facts of life.

What is the antidote to faith? Proof.

Some advice:

It's a waste of time debating ideologues--especially the religious kind. The only facts they recognize--no matter how fictitious--are the facts that support and sanctify their ideology. Thus the inevitable result: they're right and you're wrong no matter what the experts, the scientists, pollsters, the pundits, and even the gods themselves might say.

Religion provides a vital service to mankind--it keeps people from thinking and thereby getting into worse trouble.

Ideology requires no deliberation.

Religions come and go, but reason will march on its wavering, precarious, on-again/off-again course to the end of human history.

If there is a God, why did he give most of the oil to the Muslims?

Religion: an agreed-upon fable. A Religion: a group of people with a love of their own agreed-upon fable and a hatred of the competition's.

The only religion worth practicing is the religion you can create to your own specifications and collect the gate receipts for--just like the Vatican so profitably does.

America, where the new god is money. Finally a useful religion.--Peter Parker on Bill Maher blog under The Mass Delusion on youtube.

Since we humans think we will eventually screw up our own civilization, we pray to the gods to be on the ready to ride to the rescue when needed.

Agnostic Motto: I don't know--neither do you.

[If anyone on this site is pining for one.]

Evolution is fact--God is speculation.
--not most Americans

There's a thousand compelling reasons to believe in God, but evidence fortunately isn't one of them.

People act more rationally choosing products to consume than ideas to believe [but not a hell of a lot more].

For the realist: I'll believe it when I see it.
For the ideologue: First I must believe it, then I see--ahh!

[Most notable example: Saul of Tarsus, aka St. Paul the Apostle, on the road to Damascus. Lesser notable examples: any of today's creationists, especially those who like to debate scientists on TV.]

The Christian faith: a belief in the supernaturally improbable verified by the [w]holy unprovable.

The authorities use religion most beneficially for crowd control. The masses for the compensation it provides for not being chosen one of the authorities.

Whatever you believe, mother nature (i.e. the laws of nature) is going to take care of you and your hereafter.

Religious war is fighting over who has the better invisible connection wherever it is.