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Comment by Suzanne Olson-Hyde on October 1, 2012 at 3:26am

The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

 - Albert Einstein - 1879-1955

Comment by Cesar on August 24, 2012 at 1:35am

When I became convinced that the universe is natural—that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light, and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world—not even in infinite space.

I was free—free to think, to express my thoughts—free to live to my own ideal—free to use all my faculties, all my senses—free to spread imagination's wings—free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope—free to judge and determine for myself—free to reject all ignorant and cruel creeds, all the "inspired" books that savages have produced, and all the barbarous legends of the past—free from popes and priests—free from all the "called" and "set apart"—free from sanctified mistakes and holy lies—free from the fear of eternal pain—free from the winged monsters of the night—free from devils, ghosts, and gods.

For the first time I was free. There were no prohibited places in all the realms of thought—no air, no space, where fancy could not spread her painted wings—no chains for my limbs—no lashes for my back—no fires for my flesh—no master's frown or threat—no following another's steps—no need to bow, or cringe, or crawl, or utter lying words. I was free. I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously, faced all worlds.

And then my heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain—for the freedom of labor and thought—to those who proudly mounted scaffold's stairs—to those whose flesh was scarred and torn—to those by fire consumed—to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still.

Robert Ingersoll

Comment by Suzanne Olson-Hyde on July 22, 2012 at 9:09pm

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

- Thomas Paine - 1737-1809

Comment by archaeopteryx on July 20, 2012 at 10:45am

I see a quotation in the film:

"Religion was creaated by egomaniacs for egomaniacs, and used to control the masses."
-- Veroncia Bowers --

While I can't locate a "Veroncia" Bowers, Veronica Bowers was an American Christian missionary who, along with her baby daughter, died in a plane mistakenly shot down by the Peruvian Air Force. I somehow can't imagine such a quotation coming from her, if that's indeed - misspelled name notwithstanding - the person to whom the quotation was attributed.

Comment by Fernando Kijel on July 1, 2012 at 8:59am

"Ask youself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves--or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth." - Ayn Rand, "Atlas shrugged".

Comment by Helena on June 17, 2012 at 11:26pm

"Priests generally don’t pull themselves up with a jolt of realisation that something they just said was really crass. The gullible faithful swallow it all without question and, anyway, they dare not contradict them, or even consider that they could. Codswallop, no matter how primitive, infantile or downright barmy, becomes truth if they just say it, denying it access to the brain." 9

Stand up for reason!

By

JamesMerryweather

– May 26, 2012
http://freethinker.co.uk/2012/05/26/stand-up-for-reason/)

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 25, 2012 at 10:08pm

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. – James Branch Cabell (1926)

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 25, 2012 at 4:44pm

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalise our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity. – Henri Frédéric Amiel (1866)

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 25, 2012 at 12:04am

Moral indignation is in most cases 2 percent moral, 48 percent indignation and 50 percent envy. -- Vittorio de Sica

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 24, 2012 at 11:55pm

Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis. -- Havelock Ellis (1914)

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. -- Havelock Ellis (1923)

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago...had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. -- Havelock Ellis (1923)

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