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-"CLARK"
Atheist/Freethinker Quotes:
"Spirituality is the last refuge of a failed human. It is simply another way of distracting yourself from who you really are."
-- George Carlin
"I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood!"
-- George Carlin
"When it comes to BULLSHIT...BIG-TIME, MAJOR LEAGUE BULLSHIT... you have to stand IN AWE, IN AWE of the all time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it, religion has actually convinced people that there's an INVISIBLE MAN...LIVING IN THE SKY...who watches every thing you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten special things that he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time...but he loves you."
-- George Carlin
"I do not deny God because that word conveys to me no idea. I cannot war with a Non-entity."
-- Charles Bradlaugh
"The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life."
-- Sigmund Freud, Austrian physician and psychoanalyst (1856-1939)
"There was a time when religion ruled the world; it is known as the Dark Ages." -- Ruth Hurmence Green (1915-81)
"Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest."
-- Emile Zola
"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."
-- Thomas Paine
"The 'holy scriptures' of the Abrahamic faiths describe a sick, twisted, jealous, vengeful, unjust, punishing, tyrannical, fascistic, mass murdering, insecure megalomaniac of a god. This god is a truly despicable character who inspires truly despicable behavior."
-- Alfred Karius
"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved--the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"
-- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson
"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy."
-- General Marquis De Lafayette (1789)
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
-- Joseph Conrad
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
-- Stephen Roberts
"If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!"
-- Clark Adams
"Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken."
-- Lemuel K. Washburn
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself."
-- Richard F. Burton
"Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education."
-- August de Comte
"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill."
-- Henry Louis "H.L." Mencken, American editor and critic (1880-1956)
"It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities."
-- Henry Louis "H.L." Mencken, American editor and critic (1880-1956)
"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost their power of reasoning."
-- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, 1764
"Jesus' cried out while on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Those hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out there is something wrong here."
-- Donald Morgan
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
--Thomas Paine
"You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion . . .. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough."
-- Aldous Huxley, British writer (1894-1963)
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
-- Steven Weinberg
"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency."
-- Albert Ellis
"History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, American science-fiction author (1907-1988)
"The Bible and Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902
"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, 1820-1906
"The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance."
-- Eric Hoffer
"We find that the sexual instinct, when disappointed and unappeased, frequently seeks and finds a substitute in religion."
-- Baron Richard Von Kraft-Ebing
"There are two things in the world that can never get together - religion and common sense."
-- George W. Foote
"I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion."
-- President James Buchanan, 1791-1868
"Dangerous game, whoever allows room in himself again for religious feeling these days must also allow it to grow: he cannot do otherwise. Then his nature gradually changes: it favors that which is dependent on or near the religious element; the whole range of his judgment and feeling is befogged, overcast with religious shadows. Feeling cannot stand still: be on your guard!"
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, (Human, All Too Human)
"It is an absurdity to believe that if God exists and has human passions, his greatest is one of the lowest of human passions - a restless appetite for applause."
-- David Hume
"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 10, 1787
"There are no miracles. What was incapable of happening never happened, and what was capable of happening is not a miracle."
-- Cicero
"Billions and billions of prayers every day asking and begging and pleading for favors. 'Do this.' 'Gimme that.' 'I want a new car.' 'I want a better job.' - And most of this praying takes place on Sunday. And I say fine, pray for anything you want. Pray for anything. But, what about the divine plan? Remember that, the divine plan? Long time ago god made a divine plan. Gave it a lot of thought. Decided it was a good plan. Put it into practice. And for billion and billions of years the divine plan has been doing just fine. Now you come along and pray for something. Well, suppose the thing you want isn't in god's divine plan. What do you want him to do? Change his plan? Just for you? Doesn't it seem a little arrogant? It's a divine plan. What's the use of being god if every run-down schmuck with a two-dollar prayer book can come along and fuck up your plan? And here's something else, another problem you might have; suppose your prayers aren't answered. What do you say? 'Well it's god's will. God's will be done.' Fine, but if it god's will and he's going to do whatever he wants to anyway; why the fuck bother praying in the first place? Seems like a big waste of time to me. Couldn't you just skip the praying part and get right to his will?"
-- George Carlin
"God had to kill himself to appease himself, so that he wouldn't have to roast us (his beloved creations) alive for all eternity, except that he didn't really die."
-- capsule description of Christianity
(On going to war over religion:) "You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend."
-- Rich Jeni
"Once we can look at religion objectively and impartially, it becomes entirely obvious that religion has all the characteristics of a form of insanity. To one degree or another the religious mind must accept, and believe in, another world; a supernatural or unnatural world, a world filled with all sorts of imaginary beings called gods, devils, angels, saints, demons, etc. These imaginary creatures are talked to, asked for favors, guidance, "signs", or miracles, and then blamed or thanked for natural events that follow. Except for the cloak of religion, such beliefs and actions would otherwise cause an individual to be judged insane, and committed to an institution for treatment."
-- Emmet F. Fields
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
-- George Bernard Shaw, Irish-born English playwright (1856-1950)
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the same extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
-- Henry Louis "H.L." Mencken, American editor and critic (1880-1956)
"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."
--Madelyn Murray O'Hare
"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."
--Treaty of Tripoli, 1797
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."
-- Albert Camus
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning."
-- Albert Camus
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
-- Albert Camus
"Convinced that there is no eternal life awaiting him, he [man] will strive all the more to brighten his life on earth and rationally improve his condition in harmony with that of his fellows."
-- Ernst Haeckel (The Wonders of Life, p. 108.)
"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."
-- John Burroughs
"There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything"
-- Carl Sagan
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
-- Albert Einstein
"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing -- fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a better place to live in, instead of the sort of place that the churches in all these centuries have made it."
"We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world -- its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is and be not afraid of it. Conquer the world by intelligence and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages. A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. It needs a fearless outlook and a free intelligence. It needs hope for the future, not looking back all the time toward a past that is dead, which we trust will be far surpassed by the future that our intelligence can create."
-- Bertrand Russell
"The unexamined life is not worth living." -- Socrates
Mark Twain was once asked whether he feared death. He said, "I do not, in view of the fact that I was dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and did not suffer the slightest inconvenience from it."
"The agnostic is gutless and prefers to keep one safe foot in the god camp." -- Madelyn Murray O'Hare
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Links From The brilliant Site: www.EXchristian.net
http://exchristian.net/exchristian/2003_08_12_archive.php - Death & Destruction, for Da LordAAAH!
http://exchristian.net/exchristian/2002_09_15_archive.php - The Midianites.
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