Originally posted by: tRaptor
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. ~Frederick Douglass, escaped slave
How ignorant we are to believe that our perfect God could create such a terrible reality.
"The only difference between God and Adolf Hitler is that God is more proficient at genocide."
Surgeon General's Warning: Quitting Religion Now
Greatly Increases the Chances of World Peace.
A zealot's stones will break my bones, but gods will never hurt me.
Nine out of ten priests who have tried Camels, prefer young boys.
"I contend that we are both 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." - - Stephen Roberts
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - Carl Sagan
"I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose." - Clarence Darrow
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." - Benjamin Franklin
"Jesus' last words on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here." - Donald Morgan
"Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are mammals. Therefore, Jesus was... On the other hand, among turkeys, the chromosomal situation is such that all products of virgin birth are males. So if Jesus was a male, he might also have been..." (Zindler's own punctuations) - Frank Zindler (In a note to the debate Does god exist? with John Koster)
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ~Seneca the Younger, c. 4 BC - 65 AD
"God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom."
"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."
Peter O'Toole.
"Traveler: 'God has been mighty good to your fields, Mr. Farmer."
Farmer: 'You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn't around.'"
"On the sixth day God created man. On the seventh day, man returned the favor."
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.
"If god doesn't like the way I live, Let him tell me, not you."
"The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth." - [Clarence Darrow]
"If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian."
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. ~Author Unknown
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
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