Your favourite Atheist Celebrities Quotes!

[hadee41]

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish

[smax]

Fear and death are the true driving force behind spiritual belief, not an actual entity.

[Fake Messiah]

All this quotes topics, it's a shame to start another one so what about revival?

This is the quote I remember from time to time. It's from Henry Miller's "Black Spring":

All this from Rob Ramsay’s doorstep, the old man upstairs saying his prayers over a kerosene lamp, praying like an obscene nanny goat for an end to come, or when he got tired of praying coming down in his nightshirt, like an old leprechaun, and belaying us with a broomstick.

[Angrboda]

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[chimp3]

Mark Twain:

"During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. the Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church, after eight hundred years, gathered up its halters, thumb-screws, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch—the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything. … There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain."

[Angrboda]

With all due deference to Twain, I think it was the general culture of the times which gave rise to the witch hunts, and not so much "the text" (aka the bible). I think it would be somewhat misguided then to looking to purge the text as an answer to man's ills.

[RozKek]

“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”

― Lawrence M. Krauss

I haven't watched him very much, but from what I've seen, he's brilliant and funny :p

[chimp3]

With all due deference to Twain, I think it was the general culture of the times which gave rise to the witch hunts, and not so much "the text" (aka the bible).  I think it would be somewhat misguided then to looking to purge the text as an answer to man's ills.

Of course. I believe he is giving kudos to the secular forces which won the day rather than recommending changing the texts. We need to keep those archaic verses intact as a road sign of where never to tread again. Like a bad recipe book "What ever you do , don't make this soup!"

[Anomalocaris]

With all due deference to Twain, I think it was the general culture of the times which gave rise to the witch hunts, and not so much "the text" (aka the bible).  I think it would be somewhat misguided then to looking to purge the text as an answer to man's ills.

General culture which was profoundly shaped by the text.