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

“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?

?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.]

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 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.

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.

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