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Permalink Reply by Jason Ward on May 10, 2011 at 12:56pm

and one of my own

"Science is the never ending search for answers to mans oldest questions, religion is the assumption of already having the answers.

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Permalink Reply by Akshay Bist on May 12, 2011 at 8:09am

I mixed up a Linus Trovalds quote about Linux & MS to come up with one for Science & Religion.

It is not the intention of science to disprove religion, it is just an unintended side-effect.

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Permalink Reply by Tiffany Hughes on June 21, 2011 at 6:13pm

There is one quote that was instrumental in my deconversion. It is a very simple one, but one that has stuck with me ever since. I got it out of a historical fiction novel, no less.

 

"Is a belief true, simply because you have always held it?"

Donna Gillespie The Light Bearer

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Walski on June 21, 2011 at 6:27pm

Ive always favored Epicurus.

 

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

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Permalink Reply by Merlin Mercer on June 21, 2011 at 7:01pm

Not necessarily anti-religion, but I love this one for its comedic value:

"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence."  Doug McLeod

 

Probably anything George Carlin said is fantastic.

 

And I was just reminded of this Thomas Jefferson quote:

"Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies."

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Permalink Reply by UnTarded on June 21, 2011 at 7:20pm

Being raised as a Moron, this struck me like a sledgehammer.

"It is falsehood only, and not truth, that shrinks from the light of investigation."

The leaders know that it's all bullshit. That's why they're so secretive about their history.

Does anyone know who the author is?

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Permalink Reply by George Shrake on June 21, 2011 at 10:22pm

"One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh."

Robert Heinlein (the notebooks of Lazarus Long from 'Time Enough for Love)

Though Heinlein has many atheistic quotes, this one I think is the most succinct. I credit my Atheism in large part to reading Mr. Heinlein as a youth. He inoculated me against the germ, so even though I went to Catholic School for my formative years, my mind "...was a rocky place where...[its] seed could find no purchase"

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Permalink Reply by Megan Jarrett, on June 21, 2011 at 10:39pm

God is a concept by which we measure our pain

John Lennon 1940-1980

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Jack Wille on June 26, 2011 at 10:44pm

"what can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof" -Christopher Hitchens

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Permalink Reply by Rev. Chris Pagan on June 26, 2011 at 10:56pm

"I'd love to have faith, but I have thoughts, and thoughts can really fuck up the faith thing." - Lewis Black

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