Favorite Atheist Sayings, No. 1

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true; by the wise as false, and by politicians as useful."  --Seneca the Younger (4 B.C.E.-65 C.E.).

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Permalink Reply by Jedi Wanderer on November 6, 2011 at 7:43am
Ooh, nice one. Actually it goes really well I think as part of a response to the old "Jesus loves you" line. My new go-to response: "No love is better than love from that son-of-a-bitch".
Permalink Reply by LaPlace on December 21, 2010 at 4:23pm
At its best, religion is a superfluous argument for doing what's right anyway. At its worst, it's everything that's wrong with the world.
Permalink Reply by Ann N. on November 6, 2011 at 7:07am
*thumbs up*
Permalink Reply by Mike (FVThinker) Burns on January 12, 2011 at 8:28am
"Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong." - Thomas Jefferson (I know...a deist, but so beautiful a sentiment)

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so" - Mark Twain
Permalink Reply by Nerdlass on November 6, 2011 at 1:43am
It's not Jefferson's fault he was a deist... Even in those days, belief in 'something' woowoo was more or less necessary to operate in colonial America... Makes me wonder how many atheists stayed closeted throughout the bowels of history, in order to make change as deists or believers. I think it's harder to be a deist these days. We know enough through science now... People tend to either be fully deluded or not at all, in comparison...
Permalink Reply by Park Bierbower on January 13, 2011 at 5:17pm

"the fool says in his heart, there is no god; the wise man says it out loud" (unknown to me)

 

Permalink Reply by Kamboja Tan on January 22, 2011 at 7:39am
"The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short circuit destroying the mind." - Ayn Rand
Permalink Reply by Chris Dodds on November 3, 2011 at 5:22pm

"Man is the only animal with the one true religion-several of them."

-Mark Twain

Permalink Reply by Andrew Wiggin on November 3, 2011 at 7:09pm

 

What a piece of work is Man

                        hold the irony

Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on November 3, 2011 at 7:20pm

God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent -- it says so right here on the label.  If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you.  No checks, please.  Cash and in small bills.

-- Robert A. Heinlein

Permalink Reply by Chris Dodds on November 4, 2011 at 12:40pm

A minister is one who prays publicly and preys privately

A don't quite remember who said it

Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on November 4, 2011 at 12:50pm
RC church?  Here's your sign!

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