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Comment by Robert Ferentz 15 hours ago

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? ~ Carl Sagan

Comment by DeSwiss on March 7, 2010 at 5:40pm

The very concept of sin comes from the bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage? ~ Dan Barker

It has often been said that anything may be proved from the Bible; but before anything can be admitted as proved by the Bible, the Bible itself must be proved to be true; for if the Bible be not true, or the truth of it be doubtful, it ceases to have authority, and cannot be admitted as proof of anything.
~ Thomas Paine

A god’s primary function is to confirm for us deeply held beliefs that we can’t let go of, even in the face of overwhelming evidence. When you are totally and absolutely convinced of something fundamentally unreasonable, it helps to believe you have divine guidance. ~ randallg@wimsey.com

Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas. ~ W. C. Fields

Faith is the antithesis of proof. ~ NY State Supreme Court Justice Edward J. Greenfield, 1995

Comment by Skycomet on March 5, 2010 at 9:45am

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin

Comment by Skycomet on March 5, 2010 at 9:44am

"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. " - Charles Darwin

Comment by Skycomet on March 4, 2010 at 9:47am

"God is an abusive husband, and we're his battered wife who is too brainwashed to know what's going on." - The Amazing Atheist

Comment by Skycomet on March 4, 2010 at 9:36am

"What is the difference between a religion and a cult? The number of followers." - Unknown

Comment by Atheist Exile on March 2, 2010 at 9:02pm

Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat.

Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there.

Theology is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there and shouting, "I found it!"

Adapted from a quote by H. L. Mencken

Comment by Skycomet on February 24, 2010 at 11:12am

"There are two things I know to be infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

Comment by Michel-san on February 20, 2010 at 9:31pm

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 F Roberts

Comment by Skycomet on February 19, 2010 at 12:28pm

"We plead to a God that abandoned us. To this day, I don't know why we did it." - Elie Wiesel [About Jews Praying to God in a Nazi Death Camp]

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