Daily quotes

[Rayaan]

"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

- Bruce Lee

[Cyberman]

Some painful memories there, for some of us.

[Minimalist]

Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindness in favor of systematic hatred.
-- Bertrand Russell

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Been in my signature for a while so you all have seen it, but anyways:

"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).

[Minimalist]

“And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his
estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove
those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God.”

[Adolph Hitler, _Mein Kampf_, pp.174]

[Creed of Heresy]

Here's one we can all relate to enduring damn-near every day from the theists on this site. And it's by Isaac Asimov again, from "The Tyrannosaurus Prescription."

"...anger is the common substitute for logic among those who have no evidence for what they desperately want to believe."

[Creed of Heresy]

Today, I am going to quote Carl Sagan. Because I feel like it.

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.

[Brian37]

Today, I am going to quote Carl Sagan. Because I feel like it.

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.

Agreed, and thanks for posting that. I love Sagan's description of the space photo of earth taken through the rings of Saturn. It really makes one understand how unimportant and insignificant we are on the universal scale. It is a source of humility humanity widely still lacks.

[Creed of Heresy]

“Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.”
― Dan Barker, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

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“When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?”
― Quentin Crisp, The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp

[Minimalist]

There has been only one Christian. They caught him and crucified him -- early.
-- Mark Twain