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Old 06-13-2013, 01:35 PM
 
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"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."

-Gene Roddenberry
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Old 06-14-2013, 06:33 AM
 
Location: Hyrule
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“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you say "I believe there's an all-powerful force of love in the universe that connects us all, and I have no evidence of that but I believe it in my heart," then it's perfectly okay to believe in your heart that Sharon Tate deserves to die. It's perfectly okay to believe in your heart that you need to fly planes into buildings for Allah.”
― Penn Jillette
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Old 06-14-2013, 08:35 AM
 
Location: Northeastern US
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"A man without a god is like a fish without a bicycle."

No idea who said it.
I think Gloria Steinem said words to the effect that "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" and this was adapted to the purpose. There is also another variant out there, "killing for peace is like f__ing for chastity".
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Old 06-14-2013, 08:36 AM
 
Location: Northeastern US
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The mind of the fundamentalist is like the pupil of the eye: the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.

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Old 06-14-2013, 08:38 AM
 
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"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."

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Old 06-14-2013, 08:43 AM
 
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"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."

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Old 06-14-2013, 02:33 PM
 
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"My religion is simple, my religion is kindness"...Dalai Lama
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Old 06-14-2013, 11:17 PM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to misery hereafter. The few have said "Think" The many have said "Believe!"-
Robert Ingersoll
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Old 06-14-2013, 11:26 PM
 
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"Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.”
Lemuel K. Washburn
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Old 06-15-2013, 06:48 AM
 
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"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
--Carl Sagan
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