Favourite Quotes

[northumbrian66]

'Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool'
Mark Twain.

[Tiberius]

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." (Possibly Seneca the Younger)

[RevOxley]

"Man created god before god created man" ~no clue

[Edwardo Piet]

This 'No Clue' guy has a lot of common sense, bizarre name though, lol.

"Will we never learn? Who knows. Religion. Shit it." - Stephen Fry.

"It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work." - Richard Dawkins - just to give two for now.

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[Minimalist]

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

-- H L Mencken

[Dotard]

Silly Christain, myths are for kids. ~Me.

[Samson]

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."

by: Arthur Schopenhauer

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

"Religion; Man's attempt to communicate with the weather" (graffito,London)

[UpNorth]

"Christianity - the tenth plague"

A quote from Arnulf Øverland

[Tiberius]

Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after death?
No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst out "Don't you believe in anything?"
"Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be."

Isaac Asimov