"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful God, who created faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." -- Gene Roddenberry.
"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." -- Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Peter Carr, 10 Aug. 1787)
"Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a rule, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat." -- Sir Julian Huxley
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one few god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." -- Stephen Roberts
"To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy." --David Brooks (The Necessity of Atheism.
"If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little eletric chairs around their necks instead of crosses." --Lenny Bruce
"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." -- Steven King
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." -- Susan B. Anthony
"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church." -- Ferdinand Magellan, (1480 - 1521), Portuguese navigator: discovered of the Straits of Magellan 1520 and the Philippines 1521. |
