Quotes from Famous Freethinkers

[Thumper]

"It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with." ~ Stephen Fry

"It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue." ~ Stephen Fry

 

[Thumper]

"Tell people that there is an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. ... Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.” ~ George Carlin

 

[Thumper]

"If you're very, very stupid, how can you realize that you're very, very stupid? You'd have to be relatively intelligent to realize how stupid you are." ~ John Cleese

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

"Religion allows perfectly sane people to believe, en masse, things that only lunatics believe in isolation. We don't respect stupidity. We systematically respect religious stupidity."
~ Anonymous

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

“Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.”

~ Robert A. Heinlein

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

"We are connected to each other biologically, to the Earth chemically and to the Universe atomically."

-Neil DeGrasse Tyson

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

"Can I just say how cute I think it is when a Christian thinks something is far-fetched?" - Sterling Crowe

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

"The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying...it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity."

~Carl Sagan

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

“The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals. It’s just that they need more supervision.”

~ Lynn Lavner

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself." ~ St. Augustine

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

“Take five minutes to name one example of fun that isn't considered sin.... If you did it, you've just been a sinner of sloth. Isn't Christianity fun?”

~ Andrew Waterhouse

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

"There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.”

~ James Morrow

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

“Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it - because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false.”

~ Stephen Jay Gould

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

"You stare into your high definition plasma screen monitor, type into your cordless keyboard then hit enter which causes your computer to convert all that visual data into a binary signal that’s processed by millions of precise circuits, which is then converted to a frequency modulated signal to reach you wireless router where it is then converted to light waves and sent along a large fiber optics cable to be processed by a super computer on a mass server which then sends that bit you typed to a satellite orbiting the earth that was put there through the greatest feats of engineering and science, all so it could go back through a similar pathway to make it all the way here to my computer monitor 15,000 miles away from you just so you could say, 'Science is all a bunch of man made hogwash.' ” - anon.

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

"It seems religion can dish it out okay but it can’t take it: like a street thug who calls the police when his victims fight back." - Anon


Notebook: the above is why blasphemy laws were created. To protect religious ideas from criticism--especially justified criticism.

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

“Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.”

~ Richard Dawkins

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

“Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but—more frequently than not—struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.”

~ Martin Luther

”Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God."

~ Martin Luther

Notebook: the above was not posted with deliberate irony, but it was with a certain amused gleam in the eye.

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."

~Alfred North Whitehead

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

"I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."

~ Susan B. Anthony

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

"God tells Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If this was the only way they could understand the difference between good and evil, how could they have known that it was wrong to disobey God and eat the fruit?"

~Laurie Lynn