101 Atheist Quotes (experience, bible, myth, churches)

[Gypsyrhydyr]

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. Mark Twain

One of his best remarks regarding the ridiculousness pf religion.

[effie g-tad]

Originally Posted by katzenfreund

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

Mark Twain

wow! interesting enough to get to the roots of that one.

Mark Twain - Life and Racism

thanks, kf.

[Visvaldis]

"Christianity needs sickness almost as much as Hellenism needs a superfluity of health - making sick is the true hidden objective of the Church's whole system of salvation procedures. And the Church itself - is it not the Catholic Madhouse as the ultimate ideal?"

"The priest knows only one great danger; that is science - the sound conception of cause and effect."

"A certain sense of hatred towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute."

"Hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind is Christian; hatred of the senses, of the joy of the senses, of joy in general is Christian..."

"It was only Christianity, with ressentiment against life in its foundations, which made of sexuality something impure: it threw filth on the beginning, on the prerequisite of our life..."
All above from Friedrich Nietzsche

"For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms: they need darkness in order to shine. A certain degree of general ignorance is the condition for the existence of any religion, the element in which alone it is able to live."
Arthur Schopenhauer

[effie g-tad]

Visvaldis, what a lovely gesture of you here.

might as well continue with Schelling ....

On Schelling's Promethean Grace

i may never be proud of "my people's" history, but find comfort in thoughts seeking expression while enduring endless oppression.

On Schelling's Promethean Grace

[Currency Pair Crocodile]

Originally Posted by Gypsyrhydyr

Man is a Religious Animal.

Aristotle's adjective's gonnabe so pissed

[effie g-tad]

Originally Posted by Colossus_Antonis

Aristotle's adjective's gonnabe so pissed

oh dear, and here goes Xanthippe wondering about Socrates' demon..

[catman]

I don't know who to credit with this one, but I like it:

'If you promise not to pray in my school, I promise not to think in your church'.

[Mattie Jo]

Originally Posted by eliptik

101 Atheist Quotes - The Atheist Blogger

Wow! reps to you if i can give any to you at this moment.

[cncracer]

"I don’t believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life."

- Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist

[effie g-tad]

Originally Posted by cncracer

"I don’t believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life."

- Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist

that appears very questionable ....