For an easy read on a holiday weekend, I have compiled a list of quotes. Feel free to add your comments or your personal favorite quotes at the bottom.
“All thinking men are atheists.”
–Ernest Hemingway
“There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Even at church, people would not shake my hand.”
-Ryan White
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
-Edgar Allan Poe
“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”
-Benjamin Disraeli
“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.”
-Bertrand Russell
“I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.”
-Christopher Marlowe
“I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.”
-Bjorn Ulvaeus
“I hope I never get so old I get religious.”
-Ingmar Bergman
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
-Charles Darwin
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
-Richard Dawkins
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
-Richard Dawkins
Everyone have a great, safe weekend!
Comments
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." -Albert Einstein
Quotations My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. —Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged 35th anniversary edition
Here are a few of my favorites;
The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe. - Ed Krebs
If I'm asked about religion, I'm completely honest about the fact that it is indefensible bullshit. - PZ Myers
If a person chooses to take certain actions in the hope of a great reward, that is not morality it is greed.
If a person chooses to not take certain actions for fear of punishment, that is not morality it is fear.
If a person chooses which actions to take or not take based on their potential to cause harm to other people, that is morality.
- Unknown
And a couple more;
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. - Mark Twain
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.
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