Friday, December 29, 2017

Somebody else has a list of favorite quotes which I'm going to add to my list.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090828145343AApEhJK

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." 
-- Anne Lamott 

"If god doesn't like the way I live, Let him tell me, not you." 
-- Unknown 

"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of 10 things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these 10 things he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry for ever and ever until the end of time...but he loves you." 
-- George Carlin 

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." 
-- Philip K. Dick 

"Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it." 
-Charles Caleb Colton 

"If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced?" 
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley 

"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." 
-- Unknown 

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

"Faith is deciding to allow yourself to believe something your intellect would otherwise cause you to reject -- otherwise there's no need for faith." 
-- Unknown 

"When one person suffers a delusion, it is called insanity. When many suffer from a delusion, it is called religion. 
-- Robert M. Pirsig 

"Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers." 
-- Bruce Calvert 

"The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference." 
-- Richard Dawkins 

"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence" 
-- Christopher Hitchens 

"The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful". 
-- Robert A. Heinlein 

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. 

I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence. 

Science is evidence without certainty. Religion is certainty without evidence. 

"Why did God sacrifice himself to himself, to correct a mistake he made himself?" 
- Jhuger.com 

"Remember that the burden of proof is on the person alleging the existence of something. If someone tells me that the Easter Bunny is hiding in somebody's clothes closet somewhere in North America, there is no need for me to search every closet on the continent. The person making the claim has to produce the rabbit or stop wasting my time." 
-- Frank Zindler 

"Reason is the greatest enemy faith has." 
-- sign outside Baptist Church in Beryl, AR 

"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded on fables and mythology." 
--Thomas Jefferson 

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." 
--Thomas Jefferson 

'Puritanism' - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. 
-- HL Mencken. 

With or without religion good people will do good things and evil people will do evil things....but for good people to evil things, that takes religion. 
-- Weinberg 

You call atheism a religion? Atheism is a religion like health is a disease. 
-- Unknown

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