June 2011
70 posts
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.30.11
“Christianity has fought, still fights, and will fight science to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the son of god.”
-G. Richard Bozarth (1949- ), frequent contributor to...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.29.11
“The clergy…have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of which to their own profession, by a certain instinct, seem always to have perceived.”
-Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-1862), British historian. Author of History of Civilization, which he worked on ten hours a day for 17 years. So when he tells you the progress of...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.28.11
“An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.”
-John Buchan (1875-1940), Canadian-born British government administrator in South Africa, member of Parliament, governor general of Canada, and a popular novelist whose most famous book, The Thirty-Nine Steps, was filmed by Hitchcock.
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.27.11
“In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.”
-Dave Barry (1947- ), American humorist. Son of a Presbyterian minister. Elected class clown in high school. Avoided military service during the Vietnam War by registering as a religious conscientious objector, even though, as he has said, “I decided...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.23.11
“Don’t creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with ‘the human leg and foot bones,’ rather that the other way around, i.e., human skulls with ‘ape leg and foot bones?’ … Come on, creationists, think about it! Did God hide the human skulls, only leaving behind leg and foot bones belonging to human midgets with...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.22.11
“There was a time, beginning around the 1850s and culminating perhaps in the 1920s, when it really did seem that the jig was up for organised religion — at least in the Western world… [But] the growing complexities and insecurities of the 20th century paved the way for a triumphal return of the old certainties, promises, reassurances. God was resurrected. Today, 20 million grown-up...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.21.11
“I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.”
-Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891), the most famous British atheist of his day. Cofounded the National Secular Society. Edited the secularist National Reformer, which the government unsuccessfully prosecuted for blasphemy and sedition. He and Anne Besant were tried...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.20.11
“But why are religions so tough on women? In the Victorian heyday of muscular Christianity, the rules of feminine dress would have met the highest standards of the Qur’an. It was in the religiously devout America that Janet Jackson’s breast caused so much fuss. Only as we have become more secular have we shed our clothes and our inhibitions. Who are these gods that they should...
Go Larry Flynt! →
I’d take the job if I were Weiner! :-P
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.17.11
“I suspect that many who reject the scientific outlook…confusedly think that if the scientific world picture is true, then their lives must be futile because…man has no purpose given him from without. These people mistakenly conclude that there can be no purpose in life because there is no purpose of life; that men cannot themselves adopt and achieve purposes…”
-Kurt...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.16.11
“In every age, natural philosophy [science] had a troublesome adversary and hard to deal with; namely, superstition, and the blind and immoderate zeal of religion.”
-Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher and statesman; father of the scientific method. John Dryden wrote: “The World to Bacon does not only owe it’s present knowledge, but its future also”
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Congratulations to the White House and the House... →
This totally sucks.
wilwheaton:
Bush will not be investigated for lying us into war, authorizing torture, and spying on American citizens; but Anthony Weiner will resign.
Cheney will not be investigated for lying us into war, authorizing torture, and spying on American citizens; but Anthony Weiner will resign.
Rumsfeld will not be investigated for lying us into war and authorizing torture;...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.15.11
From Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary:
“Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”
-Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), American satirist, poet and critic. Author of The Devil’s Dictionary, originally a newspaper serialization published between 1881 and 1906.
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.14.11
“I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, I wished hard, but I didn’t pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organized religion growing up, but I felt I had the capacity to be a spiritual person… I believed I had a responsibility to be a good person…fair, honest, hard-working and honorable… If there was indeed a God at the end of my...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.13.11
“I don’t know [why we’re here]. People sometime say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the hummingbird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’ And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that’s got a little...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.9.11
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it… Somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable…because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn’t that I just don’t want...
Quotable Atheist quote of the day 6.8.11
“Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.”
-Anonymous, prolific author of T-shirt and bumper sticker slogans.
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