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Comment by SabreNation on May 18, 2009 at 9:56am

"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing -- fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand." - Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not A Christian

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means." - George Bernard Shaw

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." - Richard Dawkins

Comment by Rev. James Thomas Hicks, D.D. on May 18, 2009 at 9:34am

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

~ Denis Diderot

Comment by baddy on May 18, 2009 at 9:17am

My favorite freethinker quote. Also on my profile...

"A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing." -Robert Green Ingersoll

Comment by sharon on May 18, 2009 at 8:36am

Thanks for the invite.
It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. Mark Twain

Comment by Pam on May 18, 2009 at 8:23am

----An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters. ~ Henry Drummond (character) from Inherit the Wind.

----Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. ~ William Butler Yeats

----The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. ~ Georgia Harkness

Comment by Chelsea on May 18, 2009 at 3:13am

He didn't have to die for our sins because he didn't have to make us sinful in the first place.

Misty Martin

Comment by Rick Watts on May 18, 2009 at 2:32am

Our purpose in living is to make a life for ourselves

-Unknown

Comment by Rick Watts on May 18, 2009 at 2:21am

Imagination has better value than knowledge-

- Albert Einstein (free thought)

Comment by Chelsea on May 17, 2009 at 4:55pm

Today’s religion will be the future’s mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.
— Steven Crocker

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