San747 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 4934 posts, RR: 13 Reply 1, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 2120 times:
Some very insightful quotes on there... thanks for posting!
Tugger From United States of America, joined Apr 2006, 4631 posts, RR: 7 Reply 3, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 2059 times:
My favorite so far:
Quote: 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. - Anonymous
And yes, I do go to church and appreciate my religion. So no I am not against it.
Tugg
I don’t know that I am unafraid to be myself, but it is hard to be somebody else. -W. Shatner
StasisLAX From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 3266 posts, RR: 6 Reply 4, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 2049 times:
My favorite:
"I believe in God - except that I spell it NATURE." Frank Lloyd Wright
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety!" B.Franklin
Aerorobnz From Rwanda, joined Feb 2001, 6326 posts, RR: 14 Reply 6, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 1990 times:
With or without religion, 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. - Steven Weinberg
Is an absolute classic.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. - Mark Twain
Gold.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan
Jesus hardly made the greatest sacrifice. He knew he would be resurrected anyway. - Anonymous
Smcmac32msn From United States of America, joined May 2004, 2211 posts, RR: 5 Reply 13, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1586 times:
My favorites so far:
Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going? - Anonymous
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. - Penn and Teller
[Edited 2009-03-14 07:24:29]
Hey Obama, keep the change! I want my dollar back.
StarAC17 From Canada, joined Aug 2003, 3218 posts, RR: 9 Reply 14, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1510 times:
This one shows than many humans myself included are in fact more perfect than god.
Quote: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. - Richard Dawkins
Some other ones I like.
Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people. - David Viaene
Atheists will celebrate life, while you’re in church celebrating death. - Anonymous
UAL747 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 16, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1469 times:
This one is just damn funny:
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. - Doug McLeod"
But this one just makes total sense.
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. - Francis Bacon"
I never really thought about it that way, but it really is the ULTIMATE absolute monarchy/dictatorship.
And this, is just freakin' hilarious:
"I wonder who got the shit job of scouring the planet for the 15000 species of butterfly or the 8800 species of ant they eventually took on board Noah’s Ark. But at least we got that magical rainbow for all their trouble. - Azura Skye"
Euclid From South Africa, joined Apr 2005, 372 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 2 days ago) and read 1280 times:
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. - Isaac Asimov
Number 10 on the list. Yes, yes, yes and yes. Here in SA over the last year or two a farmer from Greytown has become famous for his religious preachings, doing tours and managing to pack sports stadiums full of people at his events.
Last year a conference for men held on his farm called the Mighty Men Conference drew 60 000 men (yes, sixty thousand). This year the expected turnout will be 250 000.
Something he loves repeating in his "sermons" is that good people do not go to heaven, only religious people do.
Excuse me? I know plenty wifebeaters, drunks and cheats that sit in church every Sunday. Then again, I know people that are not religious that would give you the shirt off their backs.
Just recently a well-known retired sports star in SA that has been proclaiming his Christianity and is married to a well-known singer has been caught on video sniffing drugs and having sex with a prostitute. Since this story broke other women have also come forward claiming that he had sex with them while married to his current wife, one of them also a well known figure in athletic circles.
I may also say that this guy and the singer started their affair while he was still married to his first wife.
Does he really expect me to believe that God, if He exists, will overlook the person that has led a good life and has helped others in favour of a criminal and cheater as in the above example that goes to church every Sunday?
And the sad part is that a large group of people in this country buys this man's bullshit.
The preacher's name is Angus Buchan if anyone wants to google his name.
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