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.'
"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.'
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
