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Post by Randall Lord on Dec 30, 2005 11:18:26 GMT -5
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal
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Post by Randall Lord on Dec 30, 2005 11:19:31 GMT -5
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. - Benjamin Franklin
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Post by Randall Lord on Dec 30, 2005 11:20:33 GMT -5
A deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist. (paraphrased) - Diderot
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Post by Randall Lord on Dec 30, 2005 11:22:15 GMT -5
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. - Anais Nin
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Post by Randall Lord on Dec 30, 2005 11:24:09 GMT -5
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. - Abraham Lincoln
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Post by Randall Lord on Dec 30, 2005 11:25:01 GMT -5
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. - Don Hirschberg
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Post by Randall Lord on Dec 30, 2005 11:33:52 GMT -5
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. - Thomas Jefferson
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Post by Randall Lord on Jan 16, 2006 18:11:31 GMT -5
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? --Mark Twain
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Post by Randall Lord on Jan 21, 2006 12:55:32 GMT -5
The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. - Robert A. Heinlein
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Post by Randall Lord on Jun 22, 2006 18:01:21 GMT -5
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - Richard Dawkins
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