Quote:
I undstand why you don't believe, as I used to be there too
I understand why you believe, as i used to be there too
But I think we covered that in another thread
More quotes! I think I like the last one the best by Lucretius, Roman poet, who can argue with logic like that!
I think that naming your ignorance God and pretending that, having named it, you have converted ignorance to knowledge is a sorry approach to the unknown."
-John Popelish
"What is the nature of God? His nature is entirely dependent upon the age or culture that has reinvented him."
-Solomon Skink
"An error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys you capacity to distinguish truth from error."
- John Galt in Atlas Shrugged
"If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him? If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable? If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees? If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him? IF HE HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED? If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest?"
-Percy Byssche Shelley
"Those who believe in hell can never know truth, for they are blinded by fear."
-Emmet F. Fields
"The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it."
-Matilda Joslyn Gage
"It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible."
-George W. Foote
"I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell."
-Robert G. Ingersoll
"Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in God. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed."
-Robert G. Ingersoll
"Over the years I realized the god I prayed to was the god I invented. When I was talking to him, I was talking to myself. He had no understanding or qualities that I did not have. When I realized God was an extension of my imagination, I stopped praying to him."
-Howard Kreisner
"Isn't it *ironic*? One of the favorite themes of the Christian Conversion Corps is that, if we don't worship a deity, we must be worshiping ourselves. Yet it seems that this is *precisely* what, in fact, the theists themselves are doing. They worship a God with the same views, ideals, even personality traits as themselves - the God in the mirror."
-Rosa Williams
"If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist."
-Lucretius, Roman poet