What are your favorite quotes? Whether they are yours or someone else’s, let’s get them down here! Please add your own. I only ask that if you quote anyone specifically, please try to provide a reference.This should be fun.Here’s three from me:1) Ignorance of fact is not evidence of fiction2) All religions have flaws. They all can be argued to the point where logic forces the proponent to claim “well, you just have to have faith”. Since Atheism never requires faith and cannot be disproven logically (despite countless tries), it has no flaws. Atheism is perfect.3) If there was ANY proof ANYwhere AT ALL that any god ever existed, I wouldn’t be an Atheist. I’m stubborn — not stupid.
Here’s some from Steve:
Here are some great ones from other people, sent in by Steve.
I contend that you are all 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.
Science has methods for finding and correcting error. Theology lacks such a process as it is all based on faith.
No observation in physical reality so far supports any deity stories or animals and plants appearing without biological ancestors.
Ignorance naturally breeds superstition, which in turn spawns religion.
Religion is like a crutch, of some value to the lame, but a hindrance to the healthy.
Science is facts without certainty. Religion is certainty without facts.
Faith is ignorance made a virtue.
Humans and bonobo chimps have 99.4% identical DNA
If creation is true and evolution is false, then God has lied to us all, specifically built the universe from the atoms up to make it look like evolution exists in order to entrap everyone with an inquiring mind. I would not like to believe in such a God.
Evolution is a fact, and there is a theory to explain the fact. That puts it far ahead of creationism since creationism isn’t a fact, and it lacks a theory.
Religion is not disproved. It is outgrown.
A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.
Science is not a religion but is instead a useful intellectual tool. It has no Pope, Church, or Holy Book or Dogma.
It is unknown what Jesus really said and did. The authors of the Gospels are unknown.
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To all God believers: You pray to God that I become a Christian, and I?ll pray to the Apollo statue in Rockefeller Center, that Pat Robertson becomes a fire hydrant. If both prayers are answered, we?ll assume both god & the statue are equally powerful. If neither prayer is answered, then god & the statue are equally powerless. If I turn Christian, I?ll concede your irrational insistence on the magical being, god.
If Pat Robertson turns into a hydrant, then you concede that the statue is more powerful than god. Sounds like a fair way to me, to settle this whole absurd debate about god ? whaddya say?
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If you are a Christian, you are required to believe uncritically a book written by prescientific people, many unknown.
“god created everything, but since he went to so much trouble rigging isotope decay rates, making our DNA 98% the same as the great apes, counterfeiting and hiding all these fossils for us to find, we’d BETTER believe in evolution if we know what’s good for us”
“Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species represented changes through time. Taxonomy shows the biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeezing ones eyes shut and wailing “does not!”
“…but when you come to Heritage USA, remember to bring your Bible and your VISA card – because the Bible is the Holy Truth, and God doesn’t take American Express.”
Explaining the unknown by means of the unobservable is always a perilous business.
If there were an afterlife, Isaac Asimov would have written a book about it by now.
On the sixth day God created man. On the seventh day, man returned the favor.
Theology: The study of elaborate verbal disguises for non-ideas.
“Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent and the serpent didn’t have a leg to stand on.” [Anonymous]
“Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.” [_B.C._ cartoon, 30 April 1994]
“The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished.” [Muslim religious edict, 1993 Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz Supreme religious authority, Saudi Arabia]
“To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.” [Cardinal Bellarmino 1615, during the trial of Galileo]
“If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses” [Lenny Bruce]
Rules for Theists:
1. Lying for the Lord is OK
2. Any lie, repeated often enough, will become true (see rule 1)
3. Any assertion, repeated often enough, will become true (see rule 1)
4. Anything a theist doesn’t understand couldn’t possibly happen
5. Never answer a direct question (see rules 1, 2 & 3)
6. Use strawman arguments as often as necessary (see rules 1 & 2)
7. Claim you have proven your point (see rules 1 & 3)
8. Laugh and run away
Atheism is not a religion any more than bald is a hair color.
Science is governed by peer review. Religious stories are administered by a dubious heiarchy.
All I can say is that science can put a man on the moon while theism will put you in a dark cave afraid to utter the wrong phrase cause if you do, you will go to their hell.
Prayer has no place in schools, just as facts have no place in religion
Collecting quotes is a hobby of mine. I love how some profound truth can be summed up into just a few words, easily memorized and passed along. Here’s some from my stash:
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”–Seneca the Younger
“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”–Bertrand Russell
“Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely; God is all-powerful. Draw your own conclusions.”–Anonymous
“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves–or whether it should be ours here and now on this earth.”–Ayn Rand
“The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.”–Unknown
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”–Bertrand Russell
“If Babe Ruth were the Messiah, the Catholics would have beer and hot dogs for communion.”–Bill Engvall
“Faith consists of believing things because they are impossible.”–Voltaire
“The Bible is a collection of different legends, mutually contradicory and written at different times and full of historical errors, issued by churches as a ‘holy’ book.”–Soviet Government, Dictionary of Foreign Words
“America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to Agnostics for Christmas.”–John Brimer
“An Atheist is one who can be a moral human being by choosing to live on earth rather than in the air.”–Anonymous
“Man is the only creature endowed with reason…also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.”–Henri Bergson
“Right and wrong exist in the nature of things. Things are not right because they are commanded, nor wrong because they are prohibited.”–Robert Ingersoll
“Prayer is asking that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.”–Ambrose Bierce
“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”–Unknown
“Don’t pray in my school and I won’t think in your church.”–bumper sticker
Katz’s Law: Men and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
“Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.”–Barbara G. Walker
“We should all struggle to the last to hold on to life, and religion encourages people to give up on making this life work because the supposed next life will be fairer. Religion is the source of too many of the world’s worst problems.”–Billy Joel
“One of my favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church.”–Sonia Johnson
“Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.”–F. M. Knowles
“If you were taught that elves caused rain, every time it rained, you’d see the proof of elves.”–Ariex
“If we are going to teach ‘creation science’ as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.”–Judith Hayes
“Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived.”–Oscar Wilde
“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”–Benjamin Franklin
“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance…logic can be happily tossed out the window.”–Stephen King
“The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion.”–H. G. Wells
“Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.–Dalai Lama
“Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.”–Martin Luther
“Science is open to criticism, which is the opposite of religion. Science begs you to prove it wrong–that’s the whole concept–whereas religion condemns you if you try to prove it wrong. It tells you to accept it on faith and shut the hell up.”–Jason Stock
“I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.”–Thomas Jefferson
“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
“Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”–Isaac Asimov
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”–Aristotle (reminds me of our current president…)
“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”–Sir Francis Bacon (wish the people who believe in psychics would read this one).
“The less you know, the more you believe.”–Bono
“I’m completely in favor of the separation of church and state. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”–George Carlin
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”–Richard Dawkins
“Religion is the first enemy of the ability to think. That ability is not used by men to one tenth of its possibility, yet before they learn to think they are discouraged by being ordered to take things on faith. Faith is the worst curse of mankind; it is the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.”–Ayn Rand
“I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.”–Albert Einstein
“I used to think it was a tough thing to be a Christian in this big, bad world. You want to see something interesting, try not being one.”–Norman Barker
“Truths revealed by science may indeed be awesome, but do not warrant creating God for explanation.”–Paul D. Boyer
“There are hucksters in the ministry. But it is my opinion that most preachers are not deliberately dishonest. To be a fraud requires a certain level of intelligence.”–Dan Barker
“Faith is something that you believe that nobody in his right mind would believe.”–Archie Bunker
“You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing.”–Peace Pilgrim
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”–Edmund Burke
“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.”–Bertrand Russell
“Theism’s continuing hold on the minds of many reasonable people is surprising enough to count as a miracle in at least the original sense.”–J. L. Mackie
“The longer I have been an Atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.”–Dan Barker
“Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.”–Victor J. Stenger
“We speak of faith only when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups substitute different emotions.”–Bertrand Russell
“The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.”–Robert Ingersoll
“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
“Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.”–Ludwig Von Mises
“The name of this monstrous absurdity is original sin. A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms. That which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality. If man is evil by birth, he has no will, no power to change it; if he has no will, he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral.”–John Galt, from Ayn Rand’s _Atlas Shrugged_
Here’s my all-time favorite quote on Atheism: “To be an Atheist requires strength of mind and goodness of heart found in not one in a thousand.”–Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Does anyone happen to know where this particular quote comes from? From which of Coleridge’s works does this eloquent line originate?
Tim, your post has been moved to the Q&A thread.
“Believing is not seeing” Madalyn O’Hair
QUOTES FROM FUNDAMENTAL EVANGELISTS
THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION OF THE FAR RIGHT FRINGE
or WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST!
?We?re not just in a war against the terrorist, where we face external and internal violence against our system, our culture, but we?re in a war against the secularists in our own culture who have tried to supplant our Judeo-Christian value base with their secular humanist value base.? David Limbaugh, brother of radio right-winger Rush Limbaugh, Family Ties, Joseph L. Conn, Church & State, Vol. 58, No. 5, May 2005
?The ACLU?s got to take a lot of blame for this. And, I know that I?ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say, ?You helped this happen.?? Jerry Falwell on the reason for the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, Sept. 13, 2001 ?The 700 Club,? Christian Broadcasting Network
?Separation of Church and State has long been the battle cry of civil libertarians wishing to purge our glorious Christian heritage from our nation?s history. Of course, the term never once appears in our Constitution and is a modern fabrication of discrimination.?
?Falwell Fax,? April 10, 1998, (reported in Church & State, May 1998, p. 18)
?Modern U.S. Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the founders had in mind in the First Amendment of the Constitution…. [W]e must fight against those radical minorities who are trying to remove God from our textbooks, Christ from our nation. We must never allow our children to forget that this is a Christian nation. We must take back what is rightfully ours.? Jerry Falwell in a March 1993 sermon, (reported in Church & State, May 1993, p. 14)
?The world of the Christian activist can be a very lonely place. War is always tough on those who are called to fight it.? James Dobson, Christianity Today, June 19, 1995
?[Tolerance is a] kind of watchword of those who reject the concept of right and wrong?. It?s a kind of a desensitization to evil of all varieties. Everything has become acceptable to those who are tolerant.? James Dobson, Focus On The Family radio broadcast, Nov. 4, 1996
?Unfortunately, the terms multiculturalism and diversity have come to have very different meanings when used by the cultural elite. They are a kind of Trojan horse in which to smuggle the concept of moral relativism into the heartland of Western culture.? James Dobson, Solid Answers (Tyndale House Publishers), 1997, p. 537
?This is our land. This is our world. This is our heritage, and with God?s help, we shall reclaim this nation for Jesus Christ. And no power on earth can stop us.? D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul, (Zondervan Publishing House, 1997) (written with Jim Nelson Black)
?How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ.? D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul, (Zondervan Publishing House, 1997) (written with Jim Nelson Black)
?Christians did not start the culture war but…we are going to end it. That is a fact, and the Bible assures us of victory.? D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul, (Zondervan Publishing House, 1997) (written with Jim Nelson Black)
?Not all the educators in our public schools and universities are deliberately deceitful, not all of them want to destroy this nation, but many do. The major teachers? unions certainly do.? D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul, (Zondervan Publishing House, 1997) (written with Jim Nelson Black)
?But the fact is, the United States of America was conceived and brought forth by Christians, and history tells us that story in no uncertain terms…. Anyone who reads bout the values upon which this nation was founded understands perfectly well that this was, from the start, a Christian nation.? D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul, (Zondervan Publishing House, 1997) (written with Jim Nelson Black)
?Just a few years ago, there were as many as ten thousand Communist professors in American universities. The average person never saw any of them, and many would doubt the truth of that statistic. But I can assure you it is true.? D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul, (Zondervan Publishing House, 1997) (written with Jim Nelson Black)
?Teachers in many of our public schools have acceded to the policies of the liberal teachers? unions to make sure that students from kindergarten through high school will be stripped of any sense of moral or ethical absolutes. Right and wrong are non-issues in our public schools.? D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul, (Zondervan Publishing House, 1997) (written with Jim Nelson Black)
?Every new advance and every step taken by science confirm not evolution but the Genesis account of creation. Yet evolution still continues to be taught as fact…. Thus, the honorable place that had been given to human beings by God is surreptitiously aborted, and they are dragged down into the slime.? D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul, (Zondervan Publishing House, 1997) (written with Jim Nelson Black)
?If we are committed and involved in taking back the nation for Christian moral values, and if we are willing to risk the scorn of the secular media and the bureaucracy that stand against us, there is no doubt we can witness the dismantling of not just the Berlin Wall but the even more diabolical ?wall of separation? that has led to increasing secularization, godlessness, immorality, and corruption in our country.? D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul, (Zondervan Publishing House, 1997) (written with Jim Nelson Black)
?God forbid that we who were born into the blessings of a Christian America should let our patrimony slip like sand through our fingers and leave to our children the bleached bones of a godless secular society. But whatever the outcome, one thing is certain: God has called us to engage the enemy in this culture war. That is our challenge today.? D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul, (Zondervan Publishing House, 1997) (written with Jim Nelson Black)
[So much for Christian love, I guess.]
All by Robert A. Heinlein:
I?ve never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith?it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
-Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land
If God existed (concerning which Jubal maintained neutrality) and if He wanted to be worshipped) ( a proposition which Juabl found improbable but possible in the light of his own ignorance), then it seemed wildly unlikely that a God potent to shape galaxies would be swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense . . . offered as worship.
-Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land
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.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love
History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love
I’m enjoying the quotes….may I offer one from a good friend…..
“Religion is like a crescent wrench, it can be adjusted to fit any nut.”
I don’t have permission to use his real name so you can just attribute this to Unbelievable Dave.
I am also forwarding an email I recently received from Dave….
Bro, Mike,
Below is a word that we can integrate into our conversations with those diseased with religion. The fact that the word starts with “Amen” is too, too, good. “Amentians. Those who lack development of intellectual capacity.” This is straight from http://www.dictionary.com, except they have it as “amentia” without “those who” and start with “lacking.” I started with dementia and Whomp! There it was!. I figure it’s a gift from “not god.”
On the way home, WPR had a guest who had just returned from the national religious broadcaster’s convention. He was not a G sauce freak, but the guy on with him was “Ortiz” from some “Chaldean” Society or what. I could be mistaken with the exact spelling of this outfit. It’s based on a meeting held in the year 472 where a bunch of “Amentians” wrote down their delusions to shove up our collective asses 1600 years later. No sign of god there at the meeting, of course, but it’s all the revealed truth. …now, in suppository form.
Dave
P.S. Spell check thought “Amentians” should be “Ammunitions.” Prescient, I think.
D.
1 entry found for amentia.
Main Entry: amen?tia
Pronunciation: (’)A-’men-ch(E-)&, (’)?-
Function: noun
: : MENTAL RETARDATION; specifically : a condition of lack of development of intellectual capacity ?compare DEMENTIA
Source: Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary, ? 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
-Stephen Jay Gould
“The doors of American Atheists are open only to those who abandon religion, whatever brand it may be. Our doors are not open to those persons who have not severed their ties to Judaism. Yes, you are excluded from the ranks of Atheists when you profess to be a Jew.” – Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Founder of American Atheists, Georgetown, TX, 1982
Source: All the Questions You Ever Wanted to Ask American Atheists With All the Answers, by Jon Murray and Madalyn O’Hair, American Atheist Press, 1982, p. 222-224.
https://lightning.he.net/~atheists/catalogue/shop/prod5356.php
?Every single time that we talk about what the Jews are doing, and I mean the Jews, quote, a religious group, end quote, not Hebrew people, not a race. But every time that we talk about what Jews do or do not do, we?re immediately attacked as Anti-Semitic, and there isn?t an Anti-Semitic bone in any of our bodies and we can prove that because we support the PLO and all of the PLO people are Semitic people, so therefore it?s interesting that we have this attack in a continual way.?
– Madalyn Murray O?Hair, during broadcast of the American Atheist Forum, #163, 1983
http://njatheist.org/AmerAtheists_and_MMOH_on_Zionism.mp3
OFFICIAL COMMENT
Although the two above quotes are accurate, this is not our way. American Atheists does not discriminate against our own, no matter what their heritage, politics, or culture.
The doors of American Atheists are open to ALL who agree with our Aims and Purposes, as posted here (not the poster who chose that name).
Dr. O’Hair is remembered by most for her great accomplishments, not political correctness. Those who choose to concentrate on her less popular personal opinions minimize her memory. Perhaps this is their goal.
Ever seen the movie DOGMA? Maybe it does basically say that a god exists, but it makes a lot of great points…
-There’s a great argument in the beginning between Loki (a fallen angel) and a nun, in which he uses Through the Looking Glass to justify not believing in god. The highlight is… “They… They dupe all these oysters into following them and then proceed to shuck and devour the helpless creatures en masse. I don’t know what that says to you, but to me it says that following these faiths based on mythological figures ensure the destruction of one’s inner-being. Organized religion destroys who we are by inhibiting our actions… by inhibiting our decisions, out of… out of fear of some… some intangible parent figure who… who shakes a finger at us from thousands of years ago and says… and says, “Do it – Do it and I’ll fuckin’ spank you.”"
-A little toward religion, but makes a good point. Maybe I’d be into religion if this wasn’t the case: “When are you people going to learn? It’s not about who’s right or wrong. No denomination’s nailed it yet, and they never will because they’re all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn’t matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up.”
-[about Christ]
Rufus: What He really hates is the shit that gets carried out in his name. Wars. Bigotry. Televangelism.
-My personal favorite: “Church laws are fallible because they’re created by man.”
There are so many more… I’m sure most of you have seen the movie… if not, check it out.
A couple of my favorites:
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam from Mythbusters (Discovery Channel)
“Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.” – Phillip K. Dick (paraphrased)
Cheers!
Oh yeah… how about “and God hates it when you call it ‘mythology’”
I loved that film. but I digress.
OFFICIAL COMMENT
http://www.atheists.org/ftpfiles/Press_Releases/passover.txt
Dave is in no position to dictate the policies of American Atheists.
In fact, if you want to know how American Atheists is organized and what the job of it’s officers are, request a copy othe Constitution and Bylaws of AA.
As a nonprofit 501c3 organization they are required to give you a copy if you request one. Just ask the IRS.
“The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching.” Allegedly this came from an Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BCE.
Gee, this sounds awful familiar, doesn’t it?
Peter
The lack of money is the root of all evil. (Mark Twain)
Tsze-kung said, “What I do not wish men to do to me, I also wish not to do to men.” Confucius, Analects 5:11, 500bce
“The Doctrine of blind Obedience, in what Religion soever it be found…. is the Destruction of the Liberty…. of any Nation” Robert Molesworth 1694
The Barbary Treaties :
Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary. Ratified unanimously by the Senate on June 10, 1797 and signed by President John Adams
ARTICLE 11.
As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We don’t let our people have guns, why should we let them have ideas.” Josef Stalin
“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us” Kurt Vonnegut
My favorite quotes are from The Bible, as in scripture that Christians won’t get caught quoting. Like 2 Corinthians 11:1 where Saul/Paul wrote:
“I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.”
Evolution is a theory that cannot be proven i.e. there are NO transitional forms. If evolution were a fact there would be thousands upon thousands of transitional forms. Therefore it is a theory.
You have to rely on faith to believe in an unproven theory just as People of faith rely on it for their belief.
Also, if Darwin is correct all black, brown, and asian peoples are a people of a lower transitional form and less human than caucasians.
Without a firm, unwavering moral standard every right and wrong is relative to what society sets as the standard and Hitler becomes justified.
You can quote me on all of that.
The only difference between god and Hitler, is that god is more proficient at genocide.
For god so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son,
that whosoever would believe in him would believe in anything.
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.
You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.
“Hey, let’s get serious… God knows what he’s doin’ He wrote this book here And the book says: ‘He made us all to be just like Him’, So… If we’re dumb… Then God is dumb… (And maybe even a little ugly on the side)”
- -Frank Zappa
“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”
– John Buchan
“…suffer not a woman to teach,nor usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being decieved was in transgression.
Notwithstanding, she shall be saved in childbearing.”
1 Timothy 2:12-15
Can anone believe this crap. Step by step and line by line it is garbage.
All those teachers, female. All those politicians, female. The fact evolution made it better and safer to walk upright causes the pain in childbirth, not a god.
“Jesus loves everyone, but he lets his priests do most of the loving.”
Maybe we could get a quote from Dave on why he insists on preaching about jewish beliefs and then censors and demonizes those who disagree with his religious beliefs.
And of course a quote from Ellen Johnson would be nice explaining why she does nothing about the Jewish fanatic that violates the Aims and Purposes and embarrasses the organization. Maybe her boyfriend has to give her permission first since he believes he runs AA.
Well “Jewboy” might feel some of his hostile bigotry and/or racism kick in after reading this and delete it but atleast some will read these quotes by the terrorist that became prime minister of Israel, Ben gurion.
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.
– David Ben Gurion, quoted from Michael Santomauro, Reporter’s Notebook
We must expel Arabs and take their places.
– David Ben Gurion, the future Prime Minister of Israel, speaking in 1937, quoted from Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs (Oxford University Press: 1985)
We must do everything to insure they [the Palestinians] never do return…. The old will die and the young will forget.
– David Ben Gurion, assuring his fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their homes, quoted from Michael Santomauro, Reporter’s Notebook
If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?
– David Ben Gurion, quoted in Nahum Goldmann, Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp. 121-122
Here are some quotes almost everyoe should enjoy!
” I am a Jewish Atheist” & “Don’t like it? Too bad. Don’t like that I am proud of my opinion and voice it openly? Get in line…Don’t like it? There’s the door.” – Dave Silverman on his belief that he is Jewish and those who disagree with his religious beliefs in Judaism. -NoGodBlog
“The doors of American Atheists are open only to those who abandon religion,whatever brand it may be. Our doors are not open to those persons who have not severed their ties to Judaism. Yes, you are excluded from the ranks of Atheists when you profess to be a Jew.” – Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Founder of American Atheists, former president of American Atheists and creator of the Aims and Purposes of American Atheists. “All The Questions You Ever Wanted To Ask American Atheists With All The Answers” page 222
“I celebrate Passover” – Dave Silverman, NoGodBlog
“Certainly, persons who continue to celebrate Passover Seders, mitzvahs, and such religious rituals cannot be
considered Atheists, any more than Persons who do novenas and venerate the saints could be considered
Atheists.” – Frank Zindler, Board of Directors, Editor/Managing Editor of American Atheist Magazine
“The Biblical tale celebrated by Jews as the ‘Passover’ is simply a story of a religious holocaust slaughter of the (non-jew)inhabitants of Egypt by a sadistic and nefarious god….there is not one shred of actual history in Egypt that the Jews were ever enslaved in that nation. The barbaric actions of the Jewish god depicted in the tales simply, and happily, are not true. But the mythological story is itself so full of horror that it should be eradicated from folklore, not alone of the Jews but of all decent people.” – Jon Murray, President of American Atheists (1995), part of an official statement of American
Atheists, on the feast of the Seder and the Passover holiday.
“I just used my supreme power as God of this Blog to delete a Jesus post. PLEASE! If you need to preach, GO
ELSEWHERE! All preachy posts will be deleted without mercy by the all-powerful Ruler of the Blog, with a
mighty hand and an outstretched arm, er… finger.” – Dave Silverman on how the American Atheist blog will be used to inflate his ego.-NoGodBlog
” It’s MY blog! I can do whatever I want!” Dave Silverman on his belief that he owns the American Atheist blog.- NoGodBlog
” Frank is specifically saying that Judaism has a biological basis” – Dave Silverman on his misunderstood and misinterpretation of Frank Zindler’s writings. Dave is incorrect. -NoGodBlog
“It is true that overall the genetic variability between any two Jews is just as great as that between a Jew and a Gentile.” – Frank Zindler, Board of Directors, Editor/Managing Editor of American Atheist Magazine
“The so-called ‘purity’ of the Jews is laughable when we see the capture of all female children so that they may satisfy the lust of the Jewish warriorand add half breed children to the tribe.(according to Jewish scripture)
The Jewish religion is probably the most insane of them all.” – Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Founder of American Atheists, former president of American Atheists and creator of the Aims and Purposes of American Atheists. “All The Questions You Ever Wanted To Ask American Atheists With All The Answers” pages 155 – 157
“Either everything is an act of God, or nothing is” – Albert Einstien (?)
“Faith is believing in something you know ain’t so…” – Mark Twain
“I can’t believe I’ll never believe in anything again…” – Elvis Costello, (from Couldn’t Call It Unexpected No. 4)
“Pope to Starving Masses: Go Forth and Multiply!” – Onion headline
“Those folks in the Eastern Hemisphere suffer becase they believe in the wrong god”. – my conservative brother
“Now that I’ve committed adultry, it’s okay for me to get divorced!” – a woman I had an affair with…
“God let the tsnaumi happen because there’s no difference in being dead or alive” – another brother
“Jesus forgives you, but I sure as Hell don’t” – local wag
Hey, this is not a quote! I just found this web blog through a story at the L A Times. Hey, I been ranting around since 9/11/01, the day I swore I’d never let the believers get by without a proper rebuttal! O, it’s been Hell…for them!
“Athiests didn’t fly planes into the World Trade Center…” – whoever
Anyway, howdy!
“I am not the Devil God finds so useful
Or the Crucifer
You’re every bit the whore they made you
Lie with me love…” – some hack poet
See ya!
A quote by somone Dave Silverman considers as being “his people”, Rabbi Saadya Grama, Alumnus of Beth Medrash Govoha, the renowned yeshiva in Lakewood, New Jerssey
“The difference between the people of Israel and the nations of the world is an essential one. The Jew by his source and in his very essence is entirely good. The goy, by his source and in his very essence is completely evil. This is not simply a matter of religious distinction, but rather of two completely different species.”
– Rabbi Saadya Grama, in his self-published book, published in Hebrew under the title Romemut Yisrael Ufarashat Hagalut (2003), quoted from Allan Nadler, “Charedi Rabbis Rush To Disavow Anti-Gentile Book” (Forward: December 19, 2003)
I’m still waiting for Ken Bronstein to go on the warpath as he did when Atheists protested faith based funding and faith based ethnic cleansing and apartheid at the “Salute to israel” parade in Manhattan. He emailed me racist and anti-arab material for months after that.
These are the people Dave and Ken seem to side with:
http://www.njatheist.org:81/image/Photos/Israel%20protest/racist-jewish-extremists.jpg
These are the ethical and moral people I side with:
http://www.njatheist.org:81/image/Photos/Israel%20protest/Atheists-Against-Apartheid-.jpg
Religion is just a cover for immorality.
“When something is good, I know it in my heart. When something is bad, I know it in my heart.” – A. Lincoln (?)
“Instead of being reborn, why don’t you just grow up?” – bumper sticker
“Religion is a form of mass insanity” – George Carlin
“Thank God I’m an athiest!” – whomever
Genius is 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration. Thomas Edison
God is the sum of all that is currently unknown therefore God is shrinking. Notyourdaddy
The bible – on lying (anyone out there that like liars, raise your hand! Nobody? Hmm, strange):
“For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto His Glory; why yet I am also judged a sinner?” (Romans 3:7-8)
“Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.” (Psalms 32:2)
“For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that speak no guile.”
Rev. 21:8 ? ?But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death?.
And yet….
‘To confute the opposer … one argues as one pleases, saying one thing while one means another … Origen, Eusebius [et al] write at great length … Sometimes it is true, they are compelled to say not what they think but what is useful.’
? St Jerome, c.380
“It is usual for the sacred historian to conform himself to the generally accepted opinion of the masses in his time.’
? St Jerome (P.L., XXVI, 98; XXIV, 855).
?Jerome is not alone in his candor. Bishop Eusebius, the official propagandist for Constantine, entitles the 32nd Chapter of his 12th Book of Evangelical Preparation: “How it may be Lawful and Fitting to use Falsehood as a Medicine, and for the Benefit of those who Want to be Deceived.”
Eusebius is notoriously the author of a great many falsehoods ? but then he does warn us in his infamous history: “We shall introduce into this history in general only those events which may be useful first to ourselves and afterwards to posterity.” (Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 8, chapter 2).
John Chrysostom, 5th century theologian and erstwhile bishop of Constantinople, is another:
“Do you see the advantage of deceit? …For great is the value of deceit, provided it be not introduced with a mischievous intention. In fact action of this kind ought not to be called deceit, but rather a kind of good management, cleverness and skill, capable of finding out ways where resources fail, and making up for the defects of the mind …
And often it is necessary to deceive, and to do the greatest benefits by means of this device, whereas he who has gone by a straight course has done great mischief to the person whom he has not deceived.”
(Treatise On The Priesthood, Book 1).? from http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/lying.htm.
Did any of these guys even know there’s no escape clause for ‘Thou shalt not bear false witness’?
“God makes raspberries more berrylishious.” Onion Headline.
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