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Religion and morality do not automatically exclude each other, but they are very far from being the same thing.		30
Why do the terminally religious always assume they're entitled to a say in other people's personal decision making?		29
The people who would force religion into the public schools tend to become conspicuously less enthusiastic if the religion is going to be anything but their own.		29
I can forgive primitive peoples for believing the universe was made just for them. There is no possible excuse for such thinking today.		29
Nothing divides people more effectively and unnecessarily, than religion. Take religion out of the equation, and a great many of the world's problems would fade away.		28
Creationists flail away at poor old Darwin with the idea that if the great man can just be discredited, they win by default. No, they don't. They have to prove their point too, and merely attacking Darwin doesn't do that.		28
There is something a little pathetic about people who need supernatural justification to behave like decent human beings.		27
If something can be destroyed by facts and reason, then it needs to be destroyed.		27
Freedom of religion is never enough for the fanatic. The fanatic always believes his god has chosen him to make other people's personal choices for them.		27
I suspect the big time television preachers, in addition to being con-artists, are also the worst kind of atheists. There is simply no way they would want to face their maker and explain the lives they've lived.		27
Why would a divine being endow the people he created with the gift of reason, then not provide the evidence reasonable people would need to fulfill his wishes? It's almost as if religion is founded on untestable myth.		26
I am forever amazed and horrified by the people who reject every religious teaching other than their own.		26
Anyone who puts their religiosity forward as something that qualifies them to hold public office, is not qualified for that office by definition.		26
If the evangelicals stopped expecting the world to defer to their religiosity, they wouldn't feel so persecuted.		26
I wish the owners of this site would take steps to stop commenters from spamming.		26
What good thing has any member of the clergy ever done, that could have only been done by a member of the clergy?		25
The preachers are a protected class of social parasites. One of the things that disgusts me most about them is the way they come crawling out of the woodwork after every disaster, natural or man made, to explain god's motives to we lesser individuals. God's motives always have a remarkable similarity to the personal biases of what ever preacher is speaking at the moment.		25
The entirety of the human experience constitutes less than an eye-blink on the time scale of a universe that is unimaginably vast. It requires a towering conceit to conclude it was all made just for us, by a god whose existence can never be demonstrated.		25
If people actually thought about the things they have faith in, the world's religions would appear in about the same proportions everywhere. As it is, one's faith is almost entirely a product of geography.		25
If religion actually made people better the effect would be self evident, and no one would ever have to make the claim for it.		24
I'm beyond sick of preachers seizing upon every disaster, natural and otherwise, as proof positive they speak for the almighty and must be deferred to.		24
I think the strongest evidence against God is that his existence has to be debated.		24
No scientific discovery has ever pointed to the truth of any religious concept.		24
Ninety-nine percent of all the species that ever existed are extinct. The entirety of the human experience constitutes less than an eye-blink on the time scale of the universe, and the Christian era a tiny fraction of that small number. We celebrate ourselves at our peril.		24
Religion needs to be consigned to the graveyard of bad ideas.		24
Not all religious people are stupid, but stupid people are always religious.		24
No matter of science was ever resolved through a debate. In science, evidence and testability are the only things that matter.Therefore, when the creationist wants to debate evolution, they've already lost the argument. They're just too full of supernatural nonsense to realize it.		24
One man's heresy, is another man's self-evident truth. And around and around it goes. You'd think an all powerful god could have done a better job of getting his/her/its message out.		24
One of the primary objectives of religion in the modern world seems to be conditioning people to accept the idea nothing comes ahead of corporate profit.		23
If religion equals morality, then why aren't our prisons over-flowing with atheists? You'd think they would be.		23
Nothing excuses hate and intolerance quite like religion.		23
Religion . . . both the original cure and the original disease.		23
Imagine the quality of the minds that would be attracted to Medicine, Law, and other professions if those fields only studied one book, hadn't had a new idea in centuries, and couldn't demonstrate the truth of anything they taught. And yet, the clergy expects to be deferred to.		23
Few people terrify me more than politicians whose world view is shaped by inflexible religious belief.		22
If prayer worked, churches wouldn't need collection plates.		22
Those who would break down the barriers between church and state always imagine their own religion holding sway and making the decisions for everyone. They should be imagining the sect they dislike most having control over their lives.		22
Few things afflict the human species more adversely than does absolute certainty regarding the supernatural.		22
You often hear theists claim their god has spoken to them, but you never hear them say God told them they've gotten it all wrong and need to shut the hell up.		22
When people tell you belief in god is required to be good, remind them that this massively screwed up world is largely the product of people whose minds were, and are, filled with supernatural nonsense.		22
Human beings are just another species of ape with upgraded, but bug ridden, software.		22
Religion is the mortal enemy of human freedom.		22
When criticism of supernatural nonsense is prohibited, expect to find yourself ruled by supernatural nonsense.		21
Stupidity, hate, and bigotry do not stop being what they are, just because they've been given a religious paint job.		21
When dealing with the clergy it pays to keep your expectations low, and your hand on your wallet.		21
God may be fictional, but the damage done by believers is entirely real.		21
Religion offers people an escape from a world that has been made worse than it has to be by religion.		21
If there was some definitive argument proving the existence of god, you would be hearing that argument from every theologian on the planet. As it stands, we have approximately as many arguments for god's existence as we do theologians.		21
The more I contemplate the unimaginable vastness and complexity of the universe, the more absurd man's puny little religions become.		21
Humans are conditioned to believe they need religion, because it's something that saves the clergy from having to seek honest work.		21
We humans are hard wired to try and make sense of our surroundings. It's part of our survival strategy as a species. Unfortunately, when we don't have good explanations for things we tend to start making things up. Then comes religion followed by orthodoxy, and that's where we get in trouble.		21

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