favorite atheist quotes

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Permalink Reply by Casey D on April 14, 2011 at 9:57pm

"If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men."

(Paul-Henri, baron d'Holbach / 1723-1789 / System of Nature / 1770)

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Permalink Reply by Casey D on April 15, 2011 at 4:13pm

Christianity
The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie, who was his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... yeah, makes perfect sense...

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Permalink Reply by Hope on October 30, 2011 at 9:22am

haha! I like this!

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Lafont on October 26, 2011 at 11:55pm

My personal favorite:

"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated."-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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Permalink Reply by Pat on October 29, 2011 at 5:39pm

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. Unknown

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Permalink Reply by Hope on October 30, 2011 at 9:23am

+1

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Permalink Reply by Will Faithless Sophia on November 11, 2011 at 11:37am

http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-orlando/20-founding-father-quote...

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Permalink Reply by Hope on November 14, 2011 at 2:01am

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Avanti on November 14, 2011 at 7:37pm

"Trying to use the bible to prove the existence of God, is the same as tying to use a star wars novel to prove the existence of Darth Vader".

 

-nonstampcollector 

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Permalink Reply by Madhukar Kulkarni on November 18, 2011 at 9:50am

I have recently read the epic Mahabharata and it was no surprise if it preaches faith in god and 'dharma', but it also strongly advocates faith in Brahmins!

MADHUKAR KULKARNI

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Permalink Reply by Jimmy Hilli on November 18, 2011 at 4:46pm

This is one of my favorite quotes about atheism from god is not great: How religion poisons everything: "Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is freeinquiry, open mindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement between Professor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins, concerning "punctuated evolution" and the unfilled gaps in post-Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shall resolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication."- Christopher Hitchens, The Hitch

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Permalink Reply by Chandler Blancaflor on November 20, 2011 at 2:24pm

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." - Soren Kierkegaard

 

"Anyone who says that they think of the resurrection as historic fact is advertising a willingness to believe in absolutely anything." - Christopher Hitchens

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