Quotes from Famous Freethinkers

[nanoanomaly]

justagi wrote:

The kenyan muslim fooled them again. It's true, people are getting stoopider. I'm done with this thread and conversing with intelligent idiots.

He hasn't fooled anybody. Scum attracts scum.

[Khatru]

justagi wrote:

The kenyan muslim fooled them again. It's true, people are getting stoopider. I'm done with this thread and conversing with intelligent idiots.

LOL

Bye

Please close the door on your way out.

Take your blow-up elephant with you.

[redneck]

justagi wrote:

PS- I voted for Romney.

You seem to be a champion of bad ideas.

[redneck]

justagi wrote:

The kenyan muslim fooled them again. It's true, people are getting stoopider. I'm done with this thread and conversing with intelligent idiots.

It's 'more stupid',not 'stoopider'. Who's stupid now?

[Hedonist]

"I was not raised in a religious household.

For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness. However, in her mind, a working knowledge of the world's great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology. On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

In sum, my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well.

This spirit of hers guided me on the path I would ultimately take."

~ Barack Obama

[Givemeliberty]

I just love it when socks talk to each other how about you guys?

:)

It'll be ok go rant in church about it this Sunday ok?

nanoanomaly wrote:

<quoted text>Give him time, he'll get there eventually. After giving the nod on gunning down a few more kids at family picnics.

[Lil Ticked]

nanoanomaly wrote:

<quoted text>He hasn't fooled anybody. Scum attracts scum.

Do you mean like hiring a CEO of Monsanto to be in charge of the FDA?

[nanoanomaly]

Lil Ticked wrote:

<quoted text>Do you mean like hiring a CEO of Monsanto to be in charge of the FDA?

Yeah, like that.

[Reason Personified]

Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church.~ William Inge

[Reason Personified]

I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes well out of it.~ Virginia Woolf

[Reason Personified]

Christianity must be divine since it has lasted 1,700 years despite the fact that it is so full of villainy and nonsense.~ Voltaire

[Reason Personified]

Which religion do I profess to follow? None! And why? Because of religion.~ Friedrich von Schiller.

[Reason Personified]

With soap, baptism is a good thing.~ Robert G. Ingersoll

[Reason Personified]

A Christian is one who follows the teachings of Christ, in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.~ Ambrose Bierce

[Reason Personified]

I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so called Christians.~ Harry S. Truman

[Reason Personified]

If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it?~ Benjamin Franklin

[Reason Personified]

The problem with born-again Christians is that they are even bigger pain the second time around.~ Herb Caen 1981

[Hedonist]

"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey school teacher asserted that evolution and the Big Band are not scientific and that Noah's Ark carried dinosaurs.

This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."

~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

[It aint necessarily so]

YOUR MORAL GUIDE - Pat Condell
http://dotsub.com/view/e88246dd-b45e-4eca-8e8...

"Religious people often say that atheists have no morals because they have no moral guide. If you believe this, let me ask you something. If you're a Christian, chances are the Bible is your moral guide, but is that all the Bible, or just some of it?

"It's just the good bits, isn't it? The bits you've cherry-picked because obviously if you wanted to live in a Leviticus-style society where people are stoned or mutilated for insane and trivial reasons you could simply move to Iran.

"But how do you decide which are the good bits and which are the bad in the Bible? What do you use as a moral guide? The Bible? Well, surely not. If so, you would simply accept the bad along with the good, which is clearly what the Bible wants you to do otherwise the bad wouldn't be in there in the first place, would it?

"But no, you don't do that. You defy the Bible. You sift out the bad and discard it for the ignorant primitive barbarism it is. In short, you edit the Bible to suit your own sensibilities. So where do you get the moral guidance to impose your authority on the word of the Bible? It has to come from a higher source, doesn't it?(These things usually do.)

"And it does, of course. It comes from you. You are a higher source than the Bible, a much higher source. The criminals who run religion don't want you to know or to act upon this because then their influence over you would be zero.

"Yet the evidence is clear. You sifted the good from the bad in the Bible without the Bible's help. You did it against the Bible's will, and you did it all on your own because, whether you like it or not, you have a conscience, which means that you are capable of distinguishing good from evil without the help of scripture, and you have just proven it beyond any shadow of doubt.

"So, in fact, the Bible is not your moral guide. You are. It doesn't provide you with a moral compass. You do. And the only faith you need is faith in yourself. O happy day.”

[It aint necessarily so]

"There’s no good thing that a church or religion does that cannot be achieved by a purely secular means. And there is no positive benefit of churches and religions that necessarily demonstrates the truth of their supernatural claims.”– Matt Dillahunty