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Permalink Reply by Scott on January 18, 2011 at 11:11pm

"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." ~H. L. Mencken

 

"Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?"- Robert G. Ingersoll

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Permalink Reply by Jeff H on February 9, 2011 at 10:44pm

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." - human rights crusader and former slave Frederick Douglass

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Permalink Reply by Crystal Shard on March 7, 2011 at 1:56pm

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is conductive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." - Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)

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Permalink Reply by Jedi Wanderer on March 7, 2011 at 2:52pm

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
- Thomas Paine

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.
- Albert Einstein

All religions, with their gods, their demi-gods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the prejudiced fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.
- Mikhail Bakunin

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
- Thomas Jefferson

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." Friedrich Nietzsche

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Permalink Reply by Tony Ferrito on March 7, 2011 at 7:08pm

 "First there are the Laws of Physics, after that everything else is opinion"

-Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Religions are just people claiming 'My imaginary friend is better than yours'"

-Gunner

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Permalink Reply by Crystal Shard on March 8, 2011 at 1:45am

"That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character. " - Ayn Rand

 

"I will not attack your doctrines, nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men." - Robert G. Ingersoll

 

"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives." - Robert Heinlein

 

"Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have." - Penn Jillette

 

"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." - Carl Sagan

 

"God may have created man before woman, but there is always a rough draft before the masterpiece." - Unknown

 

"If you believe Christianity is what it claims to be, you clearly haven't given the subject proper consideration" - Unknown

 

CULTURE. (Cute, Utterly Loony Tricks Undermining Real Evolution)

 

"Religious arrogance leads to religious fundamentalism which leads to religious intolerance which leads to religious terrorism which leads to religious war." - Unknown

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer W on March 9, 2011 at 5:04pm

You keep believing, I'll keep evolving. - unknown, its on my page

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer W on March 12, 2011 at 7:13am

Ha! I wish I can come up with good stuff like that if I was baked. I go to zombieville.

Faith is the assumption of truth when evidence is absent. Kinda my rewording of a quote.

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Permalink Reply by Ken on March 12, 2011 at 3:36pm

Damn.  That is a good one. 

 

My favorite(s):

"He that will not reason is a bigot;

he that cannot reason is a fool;

and he that dare not reason is a slave."  William Drummond  

 

De omnibus disputandum (Everything is to be doubted)  I don't know who this is attributed to

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Permalink Reply by Park Bierbower on March 17, 2011 at 8:18pm

"don't believe those lies son! the only lies worth believing are the ones in the Bible!"

 

reverend robot, futurama

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Permalink Reply by Vince Watkins on March 17, 2011 at 9:42pm

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four."
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Russian author

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Hugo Pienaar on March 20, 2011 at 2:57am

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." - Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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