May 2011
78 posts
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.31.11
“Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christianity, in exclusion of all other sects.”
-John Adams (1735-1826), Founding Father and second U.S. president. A Diest, like many of the Founding Fathers. Deists rejected organized religion and the divinity of...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.26.11
“What is the sense of having as many as 2 or 3 million species living on earth? … Was the Creator in a jocular mood when he made Psilopa petrolei for California oil fields and species of crabs on only certain islands in the Caribbean? … All this is understandable in the light of evolution theory; but what a senseless operation it would have been, on God’s part, to fabricate...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.25.11
“At the same time, the faithful presume themselves to be aggrieved holy victims, every last damned one of them. And when you are a victim, whether it be of the removal of the Ten Commandments from your white cracker court house by onanist liberal heathens ‘frum up nawth,’ or the refusal of the Great Satan Kansas school board to add humus and sheep’s eyes to the school lunch...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.24.11
“[Religion is] an attempt to find an out where there is no door.”
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-Jewish-American physicist.
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.23.11
“Despite the lack of scientific or historical evidence, and despite the doubts of Biblical scholars, America is so pious that not only do 91 percent of Christians say they believe in the Virgin Birth, but so do an astounding 47 percent of U.S. non-Christians.”
-Nicholas D. Kristof (1959- ), New York Times columnist and former Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo bureau chief.
Scary....
While Harold Camping sits safe with his millions… →
I knew it. I was saying that this Rapture thing would end in suicides. I didn’t even think about the killing of children. I should have know. Fucking disgusting.
wilwheaton:
This woman, fearful of the end of the world, took a boxcutter to the throats of her two daughters, and then sliced her own throat. This is what religion encourages: fear based on imaginary terrors.
Oh the Rapture. LOLZ! →
So yesterday came and went and nothing happened. SURPRISE! Not much to say, but I felt I had to post SOMEthing. Man, it’s sad how gullible some people are. I mean, I KNOW I am at times, but…
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.20.11
“Where is it written that if you don’t like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian? … If it is American to believe that God ordered Tribe X to abjure pork, or that he caused Leader Y to be born to a virgin, why is it suddenly un-American to doubt the prime mover of this unimaginably vast universe of quintillions of...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.19.11
“It’s an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe something now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations with all their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous.”
-Gloria Steinem (1934- ), American journalist and womens’ rights activist. Founder and original publisher of Ms. magazine. Member of Democratic Socialists of America.
The...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.18.11
“There were no statistically significant differences between subjects with or without religious backgrounds… Like other psychological faculties of the mind, including language and mathematics, [it appears that] we are endowed with a moral faculty that guides our intuitive judgements of right and wrong… It is our own nature, not God, that is the source of our morality.”
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I'd be lying...
peanutweeter:
via @fender_splendor
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.17.11
“I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French general and emporer. Avid Jacobin and anticlerical during the Revolution. After conquering Egypt, he declared himself a Muslim to gain local support, but upon his return to France declared:...
Gov. Scott Walker is a fucking asshole pile of... →
wilwheaton:
Gov. Scott Walker believes a new law that gives gay couples hospital visitation rights violates the state constitution and has asked a judge to allow the state to stop defending it.
Because stopping people who love each other from being together when one of them is in the fucking hospital is exactly something government should be doing.
This isn’t just stupid, it’s fucking...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.16.11
“The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty.”
-Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876), Russian anarchist leader/theorist/writer.
The Quotable Atheist
Everything you need to know summed up in three...
Goddammit! This shit blows.
wilwheaton:
America, I am disappoint.
(images via The Great Orange Satan)
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.13.11
“All the while that Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban has been protecting Osama bin Laden, Italy has been harboring another omnipotent religious zealot, one who equally condemns us Western sinners and incites violence with his incendiary rhetoric… Meet John Paul II, Christian fundamentalist extraordinaire and a man who inspires thugs across the globe who commit hate crimes against...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.12.11
“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in my which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”
-Albert Einstein...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.11.11
“Here’s what happens when you die — you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.”
-Howard Stern (1954- ), American TV and radio shock jock; king of shamelessness and tastelessness. Honestly, if you don’t know who he is, there’s no helping you.
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 5.10.11
“I am not even an atheist so much as an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am...
