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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"
-Stephan Roberts
"You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend"
-Richard Jenni
"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer"
-Unknown
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike"
-Delos B. McKnown
"If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going?"
-Justin Brown
"The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail"
-Gustaf Lindborg
"Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that
looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature." - Carl Sagan
"People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception we’ve made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, I’m sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. That’s why [religion] survives." - Christopher Hitchens
"Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the Old Testament. There's nothing like it in the literary canon that exalts genocide, to that extent. And it's not a joke either. Like where I live, New England, the people who liberated it from the native scourge were religious fundamentalist lunatics, who came waving the holy book, declaring themselves to be the children of Israel who are killing the Amalekites, like God told them."- Noam Chomsky
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
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - Isaac Asimov
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. - Carl Sagan
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan
“Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.”
–Thomas Jefferson
“Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?”
– Robert G. Ingersoll
“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”
– John Buchan
“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private schools, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separated.”
– Ulysses S. Grant (I've always rather liked Sam Grant. Though I'd say get it and keep it out of the schools, too. )
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