Irreverent Quotes

[Whateverist]

Hmmm .. too subtle I guess.

 Sarcasm 

GC

That's the spirit.  Much better.

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But I don't trash Christians.  The great majority of Christians whom I know are perfectly lovely people.  I trash Christianity, a crucial difference.

Boru

 So you're saying that you are separate from the atheism you claim. Strange how that could possibly work, actually it can't.

GC

For myself my atheism is no more separate from myself than any other of my attributes, but neither do I count it a very significant part of the whole.

[Cyberman]

A few more I've collected over the years. All anonymous unless indicated:

"It's ridiculous that theists insist humans are "so complex" that they must have been created by a god and then turn-around and vastly underestimate the power and capabilities of the human brain. It's crazy."

"This is typical of the way creationists think. They can't handle large, complicated issues, so they try and fit them into small boxes. When science fails to fit into a small box, they crank the handle and out pops God to console them."

"The very need for a thing called "apologetics" is example of the weakness of the theistic argument. "God" always needs apologies. Rationalizations, explanations, equivocations, excuses. Science either works or falls flat on its face, gets up, and tries again. And does so until it *works."
-- Mark K. Bilbo

"I do not attend church regularly because I already found "God." But "God" isn't what you think it is. "God" is a screaming child in Ethiopia whose kidneys have shut down and is about to die from starvation. "God" is a dumpster in Vatican City where urchins (just as in every city in the world) feed on refuse, while the wealthiest and most powerful social organization in the world decadently spends its money just a few blocks away on big hats, gold crosses and silver chalices and continuing to exploit the poorest people in the world in "God's" name. "God" is hate, "God" is stupidity, "God" is the scum on the bottom of your shoe. "God" is not pretty and "God" does not care. I found my "God," then I killed it. I, an atheist, know more about "God" than any Christian will ever know."
-- 'Sarcen'

"I think that naming your ignorance God and pretending that, having named it, you have converted ignorance to knowledge is a sorry approach to the unknown."
-- John Popelish

"There is either God or there is not God. If there is no God then you don't have a problem. If there is God, God is either just or not just. If God is just, then God will judge you fairly. If God is not just, then you probably wouldn't want to spend eternity with God anyhow. (I wouldn't.) Fear of a petty and vengeful god is a terrible thing to base your life on. Such a god ought to be defied, denied or ignored. If you can't believe in a just and loving God, then it is better not to believe at all."

"The bible is what happened when someone ran the Klingon text through Babelfish."

"Theology = the art of knowing nothing and talking about it in a scholarly way.

[Regarding 'irreducible complexity']:
'Just because I take the battery out of my Blackberry doesn't mean it won't make a good projectile for throwing at some moron saying stupid things.'

[Cinjin]

Don't know who's quote it is, but it's good.

[Godscreated]

 Sarcasm 

GC

That's the spirit.  Much better.

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 So you're saying that you are separate from the atheism you claim. Strange how that could possibly work, actually it can't.

GC

For myself my atheism is no more separate from myself than any other of my attributes, but neither do I count it a very significant part of the whole.

 He was trying to separate Christians from their Christianity and as you can't separate yourself from your atheism, Christians can't separate themselves from Christianity and it is a huge part of us because it means something significant to us.

GC

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Don't know who's quote it is, but it's good.

Areal to life idiot.

GC

[Amarok]

 He was trying to separate Christians from their Christianity and as you can't separate yourself from your atheism, Christians can't separate themselves from Christianity and it is a huge part of us because it means something significant to us.

Nope atheism(disbelief in proposition of god) is not a significant part of the atheist . So their is no comparison. And yes christians could separate themselves it's just that most choose not too .

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Areal to life idiot.

Nope a wise and intelligent person

[chimp3]

"Whenever we read the obscene stories the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon rather than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel." - Thomas Paine


“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”  - Dawkins

[The Grand Nudger]

Surprised I haven't seen a bunch of Hitchens. This is the very first sentence of the slate article that eventually became the book "God is Not Great".

There are four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum of servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking.

Encore, because-

While some religious apology is magnificent in its limited way—one might cite Pascal—and some of it is dreary and absurd—here one cannot avoid naming C. S. Lewis—both styles have something in common, namely the appalling load of strain that they have to bear. How much effort it takes to affirm the incredible! The Aztecs had to tear open a human chest cavity every day just to make sure that the sun would rise. Monotheists are supposed to pester their deity more times than that, perhaps, lest he be deaf. How much vanity must be concealed—not too effectively at that—in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan? How much self-respect must be sacrificed in order that one may squirm continually in an awareness of one's own sin? How many needless assumptions must be made, and how much contortion is required, to receive every new insight of science and manipulate it so as to "fit" with the revealed words of ancient man-made deities? How many saints and miracles and councils and conclaves are required in order first to be able to establish a dogma and then—after infinite pain and loss and absurdity and cruelty—to be forced to rescind one of those dogmas? God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.

[Fireball]

^^^^^^ THAT is why I am an atheist. Hitchens said it way better than I could have.

[vorlon13]

That's the spirit.  Much better.

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For myself my atheism is no more separate from myself than any other of my attributes, but neither do I count it a very significant part of the whole.

 He was trying to separate Christians from their Christianity and as you can't separate yourself from your atheism, Christians can't separate themselves from Christianity and it is a huge part of us because it means something significant to us.

GC

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Don't know who's quote it is, but it's good.

Areal to life idiot.

GC

Why?

Because the Laws regarding menstruation in Leviticus were omitted ?

Or the part about harmlessly swilling poison and sticking your thumb in a poisonous cobra's cloaca ?

[vulcanlogician]

Don't know who's quote it is, but it's good.

GC may call the progenitor of this quote "a real idiot" but for every one apologist who claims that this quote mischaracterizes his religion, there are ten typical Christians who recognize this as exactly what they signed up for.