"When we all think alike, nobody's thinking at all."
"The whole of Christian teaching would fall to the ground if it were the case that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus were not events in real history but stories told to illustrate truths which are valid apart from these happenings." (wiki_link)
- Lesslie Newbigin - theologian and bishop
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
- Albert Einsten - German-born America physicist
"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never hive assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma."
- Abraham Lincoln - U.S. President
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point then the fact that a drunken man is happer than a sober one."
- George Bernard Shaw - Irish-born English playwright
"All thinking men are atheists."
- Ernest Hemingway - American author
"I was born a heretic. I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows."
- Susan B. Anthony - American suffragist
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."
- James Madison - U.S. President
"Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity ?."
- Arthur C. Clarke - author
"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
- Thomas A. Edison - American inventor
"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis."
- Sigmund Freud - Austrian-born psychologist
"Religion are all alike-founded upon fables and mythologies. I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone an man."
"The Christian God can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like hod, one only need to look at the caliber of people who say they server him. They are always of tho classes: fools and hypocrites."
- Thomas Jefferson - U.S. President ,author ,scientist ,architect ,educator ,and diplomat
"Faith is the great cop-out ,the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perphaps because of, the lack of evidence. I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
- Richard Dawkins - ethologist ,zoologist ,evolutionary scientist ,and author
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor
"I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off."
- Billy Joel - American musician
"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton - American suffragist (1815-1902)
"So long as the universe had a beginning we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would neither be created nor destroyed it would simple be. What place mthen for a creator?."
- Stephen Hawking ,English scientist
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
- Denis Diderot, French philosopher, author ,and encyclopedist (1713-1784)
"People should reject God defiantly in order to pour out all their loving solicitude upon mankind."
- Albert Camus - French author ,Existential philosopher (1913-1960)
"My view is that if there is no evidence for it, the forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn't believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I'm agnostic."
- Carl Sagan, AMerican astronomer and author
"All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications."
- Friedrich Nietzsche - German philologist and philosopher (1844-1900)
"The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression and a protest against real wretchedness. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people."
- Karl Marx - German political philosopher and economist (1818- 1883)
"Religion is just mind control."
- George Carlin - comedian
"I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe."
- William Howard Taft - U.S. President
"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. A man full of faith is simple one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass; he is actually ill."
- Henry Louis "H.L" Mencken - American editor and critic (1880-1956)
"I turned to speak to God, about the world's despair; But to make bad matters worse ,I found God wasn't there."
- Robert Frost - American poet
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God ,who creates faulty Human ,and then blames them for his own mistakes."
- Gene Roddenberry - Creator of StarTrek (1921-1991)
"Christianity is the most ridiculous ,the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." - Francois Marie Arouet "Voltaire"
- French author and playwright (1694-1778)
"By the year 2000, we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential not God."
- Gloria Stenem - women's rights activist
"Say what you will about the sweer miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile."
- Kurt Vonnegut - American author
"Faith is believing something you know aint true."
- Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain" - American author and humorist (1835-1910)
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true ,by the wise as false , and by the rulers as useful."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younder" - Roman stoic philosopher ,writer ,and politician
"If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good and CARES about any of it to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part if the brain working."
- Frank Zappa - American musician
"The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known."
- John Stuart Mill - English philosopher and economist (1803-1873)
gabix : The bible hasn't done any harm, the people ...
"When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
- Oscar Wilde - author
"We have just enough religion to make us hate ,but not enough religion to make us love one another."
- Jonathan Swift - satirist, essayist ,political pamphleteer, and poet
"By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none."
- Charlie Chaplin - actor, director and producer (1889-1977)
"All national institutions of churches , whether Jewish ,Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions ,set up to terrify and enslave mankind ,and monopolize power and profit."
- Thomas Paine - English born American author and revolutionary leader (1737-1809)
Something to read :
- Christian Bloodshed [EN] .pdf
- King James - KJBible [EN] .pdf
- The story behind the biblical accounts: Egyptian myths as archetypes [EN]
- John Anthony West - Serpent In The Sky: The High Wisdom Of Ancient Egypt [EN]
- Samuel Sharpe - Egyptian Mythology And Egyptian Christianity [EN]
- Moustafa Gadalla - Egyptian Cosmology: The Animated Universe [EN]
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George Carlin (Back in Town)
Sanctity of Life
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George Carlin (It's bad for ya) - YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS
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