Quote of the Day

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We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.  (Mark Thomas)

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The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.  (Gordon Stein)

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Dear Religion: While you were debating which animal was ok to eat, I just landed on Mars.  Sincerely, your pal, Science.

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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.  (Benjamin Disraeli)

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No great thinker was ever celebrated for his unbelievable ability to 'respect' everyone’s awful ideas and defer to those who held them. The highest respect one can pay to another’s idea is to scrutinize it and explain what might be wrong. This is what 'respect' means in the intellectual domain.  (Spencer Mulesky)

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How did the Holocaust happen?  Because God allowed it to happen.  Why did it happen?  Because God said, 'My top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.'   (Rev. John Hagee)

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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.  (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

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If Christ were here, there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.  (Mark Twain)

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Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy is a coffin.  (Robert G. Ingersoll)

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If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic schoolchildren would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.  (Lenny Bruce)

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I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.  (William H. Taft)

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I don’t believe in any gods or goddesses, because they are so obviously human inventions.  Desert-dwellers have severe, austere and dry gods; suffering and oppressed people have loving and merciful gods; farmers have gods of rain and fruitfulness, and I have never met a liberal who believed in a conservative god, or a conservative who believed in a liberal one.  Every god I have ever heard of bears the indelible marks of human manufacture, and through history we can explain how and why we invented them.  (Andrew Copson).

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Man is the religious animal.  He is the only animal that has the true religion - several of them.  He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight.  He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.  (Mark Twain)

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The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.  (Benjamin Franklin)

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Religions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else’s stinks.

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How much reverence can you have for a supreme being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in his defined system of creation?  (Joseph Heller)

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Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.  (Martin Luther)

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Atheist is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term; it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.  (Chapman Cohen)

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We believe democracy is an atheist-call that idolizes human beings.  (manifesto of Ansar al-Sunnah, Iraq terrorist group)

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"We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are filled with the devil."  (Tim LaHaye, co-author of the Left Behind series)

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Revealed religion has no weight with me.  (Benjamin Franklin)

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The bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals.  That doesn't mean that god doesn't love heterosexuals.  It's just that they need more supervision.  (Anon)

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The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe.  (Thomas Paine)

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.  (Edmund Burke)

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One good schoolmaster is of more use than 100 priests.  (Thomas Paine)

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The declaration which says that god visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.  (Thomas Paine)

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The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.  (from The Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11, written during the administration of President George Washington, signed by President John Adams, and unanimously approved by the Senate in 1797)

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There ain't no answer.  There ain't going to be any answer.  There never has been an answer.  That's the answer.  (Gertrude Stein)

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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by Scripture.  (Thomas Paine)