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| A horde is a horde, and a Christian horde is no kinder than a Pagan one. ~ J. Robert King "Lancelot du Lethe"
Adherence to the irrationality of religion is a weakness which lets a person avoid responsibility for his own life, thereby robbing him of the chance to live life to its fullest. When a man sees this fact, it elevates him nobly above the still-misguided masses. I am quite happily and proudly an atheist. ~ Jim Bassett "As it is in Heaven" All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. ~ Albert Einstein An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case. God has written all the books. ~ Samuel Butler Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. They go as far as the legs of reason will carry them - and then they leap. ~ Yann Martel "Life of Pi" Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. ~ Charlotte Bronte "Jane Eyre" Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Brother Alwyn" Faith manages. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Delenn" Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we cannot continue, that the whole our lives is without meaning. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature. ~ Albert Einstein I talk about the gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "The Left Hand of Darkness" In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~ Blaise Pascal Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. ~ Kahlil Gibran Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ~ Albert Einstein The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt "Eleanor and Franklin" The splendid discontent of God With chaos, made the world. And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Discontent" There are no grounds for going beyond a scientific explanation of reality and no sound reason for believing anything but our sense experience. A clear intellect, close attention to detail and a ltitle scientific knowledge will expose religion as supersticious bosh. God does not exist. ~ Yann Martel "Life of Pi" There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. ~ George Gordon Noel Byron What God was, in fact, was a doctor, a famous surgeon: don't ask questions, I don't answer them, pay your fees, I'll save you if I care to but if I don't it's your own fault. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin "The Compass Rose" What makes a religion false? If any religion is right, then maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them. ~ J. Michael Strazcynski "Babylon 5 Sinclair" When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. ~ Frank Herbert "Dune" All religion begins with the cry "Help!" ~ William James Every man knows he will die; and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of sane being. ~ John Myers Myers "Silverlock" Gaining enlightenment is an accident. Spiritual practice simply makes us accident-prone. ~ Zen saying How terrible to watch a man who has the incomprehensible within his grasp, doesn't know what to do, and sits down playing with a toy called God. ~ Fedor Dostoyevsky If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven and very, very few persons. ~ James Thurber If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. ~ Will Rogers Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is hardly ever written about by writers or intellectuals; modern philosophers do not speak of it directly; the majority of scientists deny it could possible be there at all. It plays no part in popular culture: no one sings about it, no one talks about it in plays, and it's not on TV. We are actually educated into believing that nothing is real beyond what we can perceive with our ordinary senses. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. ~ Mrs. H.O. Ward Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking. ~ Dean William R. Inge Some things have to be believed to be seen. ~ Ralph Hodgson |
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