(December 29, 2011 at 5:18 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Does anybody keep noticing the amount of intelligent famous atheists out there? America is a very christian country yet a lot of famous Americans with braincells are atheist.That's not a coincidence.
It's not a coincidence for the exact same reason that the VAST majority of scientists are atheists.
(December 29, 2011 at 5:18 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: All you god bothering sheeple, do you not stop and question what all these famous and intelligent people are on to?
There are plenty of famous theists.
Most of them are just famous for saying retarded things and not for matters of intellect or science.
Looking at you, Pat Robinson.
Then there are people like Stephan Hawking or Roger Penrose. Both theoretical physicists. Incredibly intelligent people.
Both atheists.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan