Empty Orchard
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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 we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
- [Voltaire]
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
-Dan Barker
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
- Epicurus
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
-[Lincoln]
Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies.
- [Thomas Jefferson]
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
- [Kurt Vonnegut]
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
-Galileo
One of the greatest tragedies in human history was the hijacking of morality by religion.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
-Arthur C. Clarke
The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago — and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since — is no one to consult on questions of ethics.
-Sam Harris
Religion is based . . . mainly on fear . . . 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. . . .
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
- [Bertrand Russell]
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
-Christopher Hitchens
The Genesis story is just the one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe...It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants.
-Richard Dawkins
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life – our desire to go on living … our dread of coming to an end.
-Thomas Edison
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.
-Thomas Edison
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."
- [Nietzsche]
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
-Frank Zappa