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Old 07-11-2009, 01:18 PM
 
Location: Western Cary, NC
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Forrest Ackerman:
I love this one, he hit the nail right on the head, and could be me making one of my softer anti-religious statements.

"I was a secular humanist before I knew the term. I have not believed in God since childhood's end. I believe a belief in any deity is adolescent, shameful and dangerous. How would you feel, surrounded by billions of human beings taking Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy and the stork seriously, and capable of shaming, maiming or murdering in their name?
I am embarrassed to live in a world retaining any faith in church, prayer or a celestial creator. I do not believe in Heaven, Hell or a Hereafter; in angels, demons, ghosts, goblins, the Devil, vampires, ghouls, zombies, witches, warlocks, UFOs or other delusions; and in very few mundane individuals--politicians, lawyers, judges, priests, militarists, censors and just plain people. I respect the individual's right to abortion, suicide and euthanasia. I support birth control. I wish to Good that society were rid of smoking, drinking and drugs."
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Old 07-14-2009, 05:47 AM
 
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Forrest Ackerman:
I love this one, he hit the nail right on the head, and could be me making one of my softer anti-religious statements.

"I was a secular humanist before I knew the term. I have not believed in God since childhood's end. I believe a belief in any deity is adolescent, shameful and dangerous. How would you feel, surrounded by billions of human beings taking Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy and the stork seriously, and capable of shaming, maiming or murdering in their name?
I am embarrassed to live in a world retaining any faith in church, prayer or a celestial creator. I do not believe in Heaven, Hell or a Hereafter; in angels, demons, ghosts, goblins, the Devil, vampires, ghouls, zombies, witches, warlocks, UFOs or other delusions; and in very few mundane individuals--politicians, lawyers, judges, priests, militarists, censors and just plain people. I respect the individual's right to abortion, suicide and euthanasia. I support birth control. I wish to Good that society were rid of smoking, drinking and drugs."
right on. Very well said.
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Old 07-15-2009, 11:33 PM
 
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“Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms, They were all very important when we didn’t know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened, Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally. Literally! I choose not to believe that’s the way.”

Bruce Willis, July 1998 issue of George magazine.
maybe it should read: Modern religion is the entrail of modern mythology. works for me.
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Old 07-16-2009, 08:02 AM
 
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Got this off this site, a great site too;

Zen » Blog Archive » Top 50 Atheism Quotes


[SIZE=4]Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
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Old 07-16-2009, 10:01 AM
 
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

-- George Carlin
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Old 07-17-2009, 01:28 PM
 
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

-- George Carlin
Carlin has some great quotes on that site.
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Old 07-18-2009, 01:23 AM
 
Location: Denver
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I'm not sure if this has been posted already. I didn't see it.

"One person doing something weird is a weird person. A group of people doing something weird is a church." - Bengt Washburn

Great Bruce Willis quote, by the way! I had no idea he felt that way.
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Old 08-04-2009, 06:21 AM
 
Location: Western Cary, NC
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Catholics are against abortions.
Catholics are against homosexuals.
But, I can't think of anyone who has less abortions than homosexuals! -- George Carlin
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Old 08-28-2009, 04:09 PM
 
Location: New York City
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." ~Voltaire


"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." ~Thomas H. Huxley


"Of course, say the true believers, religion rests on faith, not intellect. But if all you need to do to prove I am wrong is to have faith that you are right, then no discussion is possible. . . . It is only by resort to what the Roman statesman Cicero called 'right reason' that men and women can interact with each other amicably in a civilized society." ~ Philip D. Harvey


"I do not support religion because it demands that we give up our most important human asset, the ability to question. It demands that we simply believe. Isn't that true of any dictator, of any totalitarian society? Insofar as social development is concerned, nothing is of greater importance than the human function of questioning. . . . Questioning led to the development of civilization." ~Vladimir Pozner


"I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom." ~ Clarence Darrow


"If God lived on earth, people would break his windows." ~Yiddish saying


"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies." ~ Thomas Jefferson
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Old 10-29-2011, 06:35 PM
 
Location: New York City
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