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OP - August 30, 2009, 11:22 PM

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Dawkins, Richard (1986). The Blind Watchmaker

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
Christopher Hitchens

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Reply #1 - August 30, 2009, 11:31 PM

"Dragon Kick your ass into the Milky Way
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Reply #2 - August 30, 2009, 11:43 PM

Epicurus - "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?"

Bertrand Russell - "And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence"

Carl Sagan - "You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe."
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Reply #3 - August 31, 2009, 12:16 AM

"With a bucket of water in one hand and a match in the other I shall put out hells fire and set alight heaven, so that none shall worship god from the fear of hell or the greed of heaven" - unknown source

"To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower, to hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour" - William Blake

"A young child prays to god, 'God, please protect me from the hands of those who hurt me and those with cruel minds'. Where was God's mercy then...Where was God?" - Stardust

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Reply #4 - August 31, 2009, 12:35 AM

"He who takes the same God as his oppressors is destined to remain a slave."

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also." ~Mark Twain

"Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message. Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive. Myth tells you what the experience is." -Joseph Campbell

Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure. ~Harvard Lamphoon

OCEAN: A body of water occupying about two thirds of a world made for man- who has no gills." -Ambrose Bierce

" 'God' is an unelected dictator who tortures his political opponents. He possesses weapons of mass destruction and has used them against his own people."

"If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. "
- Alexandre Dumas

"Religions prophesize the end of the world and then consistently work together to ensure that these prophecies come true."
- Anonymous

"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!"
-George Carlin, "Politically Incorrect"

"Animals do not have gods, they are smarter than that."
-Ronnie Snow

"Religion provides the solace for the turmoil that it creates."
-Byron Danelius

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
-Blaise Pascal

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
-Napoleon

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
-Chapman Cohen

"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church."
-Ferdinand Magellan

"Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it."
-- Giordano Bruno
quoted by Gaspar Schopp of Breslau in a letter to Conrad Rittershausen, written on the day of Bruno's burning at the stake for (among other things) the crime of being an "atheist"

"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
-- Giordano Bruno, "Giordano Bruno The Forgotten Philosopher" by John J Kessler

"Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever."
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Reply #5 - August 31, 2009, 03:06 AM

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Reply #6 - August 31, 2009, 07:21 AM

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
- Christopher Hitchens

There are two religions on the earth, which have distinct enmity against all other religions. These two are Christianity and Islam. They are not satisfied with just observing their own religions, but are determined to destroy all other religions. That?s why the only way to make peace with them is to embrace their religion.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Knowing Islam is the only true religion we do not allow propagation of any other religion. How can we allow building of churches and temples when their religion is wrong? Thus we will not allow such wrong things in our countries. - Zakir Naik
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Reply #7 - August 31, 2009, 07:29 AM

Quote from: stardust on August 31, 2009, 12:16 AM
"With a bucket of water in one hand and a match in the other I shall put out hells fire and set alight heaven, so that none shall worship god from the fear of hell or the greed of heaven" - unknown source

That was Rabia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabia_al-Adawiyya#Anecdotes

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Reply #8 - August 31, 2009, 08:34 AM

"Prayers are meant only for slaves".... - my father

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Reply #9 - August 31, 2009, 08:39 AM

"There is no Religion of Peace, only people who are peaceful while being religious!" Moi

"We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves." - from Goethes Faust
"Only the wisest and the stupidest men never change." - Confuzios
"there is no religion of peace, only people who are peaceful while being religious."
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Reply #10 - August 31, 2009, 09:21 AM

Quote from: stardust on August 31, 2009, 12:16 AM
"With a bucket of water in one hand and a match in the other I shall put out hells fire and set alight heaven, so that none shall worship god from the fear of hell or the greed of heaven" - unknown source

Quote from: awais on August 31, 2009, 07:29 AM
That was Rabia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabia_al-Adawiyya#Anecdotes

Yes, it was. Even though I'm not religious I've always loved that quote.

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Reply #11 - August 31, 2009, 01:01 PM

I <3 b00b13z

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Reply #12 - September 04, 2009, 09:37 PM

Can never have enough quotes...

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
~Aldous Huxley

"Kids in the back seat cause accidents. Accidents in the back seat - cause kids!"
~Anon.

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"A woman told me today that I had restored her faith in humanity. I told her that she really shouldn't set the bar so low."
~Unknown

"Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else."
~"Brain Donors"

"Even on the highest throne in the world, you are still sitting on your ass."
~Michel de Montaigne

"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up."
~Lily Tomlin

"Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
~Philip K. Dick.

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
~T. S. Eliot

"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love."
~Butch Hancock

"Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
~Unknown

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed."

"Don't confuse the end of your world with the beginning of mine."
~John Leguizamo

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
~Mark Twain

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Reply #13 - September 05, 2009, 02:02 AM

Thomas Paine Time

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Prophesying is lying professionally.

Science is the true theology.

A little Ben Franklin

"When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for the help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."

and a touch of Jefferson

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

or on the lighter side:

There?s no fun in a theocracy
There?s no fun unless you have a chosen people i.d.
Still then you got that God decree
And that?s no fun for anyone

-NOFX, No Fun in Fundamentalism

You know, I rather like this God fellow. He?s very theatrical. A little pestilence here, a plague there... Omnipotence...got to get me some of that.
-Stewie Griffin, Family Guy

"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."
- Peter O'Toole.

"I would have made a good Pope."
Richard Nixon (yes, thats a real quote)

"The Jews call god YWHW, the Muslims call him Allah, the Japanese call him UltraMan..but in the end isnt it all really the same"

- Me trying to do interfaith dialog

EDIT:
I got something to say
I killed a baby today
Doesnt matter that much to me
so long as its dead

-lyrics from a Misfits song, written by a theatrical band for shock value, whom have never killed a baby or endorsed the actual killing of babies.

"We (once) sent Noah to his people, and he tarried among them a thousand years less fifty: but the Deluge overwhelmed them while they (persisted in) sin. (Quran, 29:14)

-The Quran, Verse by a "deity", that over a billion people actually worship as all wonderful, detailing one of his many adventures in infanticide....

Realistically.... which one is more offensive?

The foundation of superstition is ignorance, the
superstructure is faith and the dome is a vain hope. Superstition
is the child of ignorance and the mother of misery.
-Robert G. Ingersoll (1898)

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Reply #14 - September 05, 2009, 09:19 PM

"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."

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Reply #15 - September 07, 2009, 12:21 AM

"Nature offers no compelling evidence for an intelligent designer and countless examples of unintelligent design." - Sam Harris

"You are, of course, free to interpret the Bible differently - though isn't it amazing that you have succeeded in discerning the true teachings of Christianity, while the most influential thinkers in the history of your faith failed?" - Sam Harris

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Reply #16 - September 07, 2009, 04:41 AM

"In Salat Jamaa at the masjid. Close the gaps between the ankles to not let the Shytan in."
.... What about the huge gab between your legs you just created?

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Reply #17 - September 07, 2009, 07:15 AM

Quote from: Pazuzu on September 05, 2009, 09:19 PM
"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."

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Reply #18 - September 07, 2009, 09:16 AM

If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!

The foundation of superstition is ignorance, the
superstructure is faith and the dome is a vain hope. Superstition
is the child of ignorance and the mother of misery.
-Robert G. Ingersoll (1898)

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Reply #19 - September 07, 2009, 10:56 AM

"The notion of "God" has been invented as an antithesis of "Life" ? in God is subsumed, in a terrible unity, all that is unhealthy, venemous, calumnious, all hate for Life. The notion of "the above," or "the true world" has only been invented to depreciate the only world there is ? in order to retain for our earthly reality no purpose, no reason, no work to be done! " - Friedrich Nietzche

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Reply #20 - September 07, 2009, 04:30 PM

Religion is an insult to human dignity.

With or without it you would have
good people doing good things and
evil people doing evil things.

But for good people to do evil things,
that takes religion.

? Professor Steven Weinberg, 1999

Thats pretty much my second fav, aside from the one I already have in my siggy.

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Reply #21 - September 27, 2009, 02:31 AM

"Those parts I dont understand in the Quran dont bother me, it's the parts that I do understand" adapted from Mark Twain

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Reply #22 - September 27, 2009, 05:19 PM

Nice one Islame

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Reply #23 - September 28, 2009, 12:37 AM

This is classic.

Quote from: open_thinking on September 27, 2009, 11:46 AM
When I was 6yr old, my parents took me to Macca and bathed me in the zamzam water. They said it will keep me pure for the rest of my life. However, now the purity of my atheist beliefs bothers them.

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Reply #24 - September 28, 2009, 04:29 AM

No matter what your religion, the average guy is still under the thumb.

Quote:

"When the Himalayan peasant meets the He-Bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who often turns aside.

But the She-Bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail,
for the female of the species, is more deadly than the male"

Unquote:

(Rudyard Kipling)

There will be no white flag above our door
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Reply #25 - September 28, 2009, 05:14 AM

Personally I prefer:

"Call me what you like,

but don't call me late for breakfast"

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Reply #26 - September 29, 2009, 09:26 AM

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system. [Gore Vidal, American novelist, At Home, 1988, from James A. Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief, Famous People with the Courage to Doubt]

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

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ~Edgar Allen Poe

The foundation of superstition is ignorance, the
superstructure is faith and the dome is a vain hope. Superstition
is the child of ignorance and the mother of misery.
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Reply #27 - September 29, 2009, 09:48 AM

Quote from: Omaar Khayaam on August 30, 2009, 11:43 PM

Carl Sagan - "You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe."

It's a good one this, and works both ways, atheist and believer in God, but I would go further than that, and add 'based on a deep seated need to believe you are right.'

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Reply #28 - September 29, 2009, 10:01 AM

Quote from: Jack Torrance on September 29, 2009, 09:48 AM
... but I would go further than that, and add 'based on a deep seated need to believe you are right.'

So true, I wish we could somehow elevate ourselves above that.
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Reply #29 - September 29, 2009, 10:51 AM

Kenan, you can, but only for yourself - and that's fine.

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