September 2011
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 9.30.11
“One of the signs of personal strength is that we take blame for what we do wrong. The other sign is that we take credit for what we do right. We do not alienate our power by assigning it to someone else… Strong people are comfortable in recognizing their own power…nor do they call their power ‘a higher power.’”
-Sherwin T. Wine (1928- ), American rabbi and...
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Playground Police
animalsbeingdicks:
HEY…CUT THE SHIT!
Puppy Police! So awesome!!
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 9.29.11
“The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.”
-Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse François, 1740-1814), French sadist, libertine and pornographer. Celebrated as a philosopher by twentieth-century intellectuals fro Guillaume Apollinaire (who called Sade “the freest spirit that has yet existed”) to Simone De Beauvoir. Described himself in his will...
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 9.28.11
“America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here, abuse the Indians, and then go to bed with a board down the middle, you know, the bundling board, so they don’t have sex. That’s how we got started.”
-Frank Zappa (1940-1993), American avant-garde...
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 9.27.11
“Can a people that believes more fervently in the Virgin Birth than in evolution still be called an Enlightened nation? … The secular states of modern Europe do not understand the fundamentalism of the American electorate… In fact, we now resemble those nations less than we do our putative enemies. Where else do we find fundamentalist zeal, a rage at secularity, religious...
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 9.26.11
“Several thousand years ago, a small tribe of ignorant near-savages wrote various collections of myths, wild tales, lies and gibberish. Over the centuries, these stories were embroidered, garbled, mutilated, and torn into small pieces that were then repeatedly shuffled. Finally, this material was badly translated into several languages successfully. The resultant text, creationists feel, is...
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 9.23.11
“Men imagine gods to be born to have clothes and voice and body, like themselves… If oxen, lions, and horses had hands and could make fashion of art, they would fashion their gods in their own images… The Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians say theirs have blue eyes and red hair…”
-Xenophanes (570-480 b.c.e.), Greek philosopher.
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 9.22.11
“I believe that virtuous behavior is trivialized by carrot-and-stick schemes, such as promises of highly improbable rewards or punishments in an improbable afterlife.”
-Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), American novelist-satirist. Once called himself a “Christ-worshipping agnostic.” Succeeded Isaac Asimov in what Vonnegut called the “totally functionless capacity” of...
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Quotable Atheist quote of the day 9.20.11
“So, will science and religion find common ground, or at least agree to divide the fundamentals into mutually exclusive domains? A great many well-meaning scholars believe that such rapprochement is both possible and desirable. A few disagree, and I am one of them. I think Darwin would have held to the same position. The battle line is, as it has ever been, in biology. The inexorable growth...
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“So be Patriotic. Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when...”
– Mark Cuban (via urban-fervor)
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