Irreverent Quotes

[Aegon]

"There is a beginning. There is a not yet beginning to be a beginning. There is a not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to be a beginning. There is being. There is nonbeing. There is a not yet beginning to be nonbeing. Suddenly there is being and nonbeing. But between this being and nonbeing, I don't really know which is being and which is nonbeing. Now I have just said something. But I don't know whether what I have said has really said something or whether it hasn't said anything at all."

-Zhaungzi

(Some people take all of the Inner Chapters seriously but there are points throughout where he's clearly having fun, sort of parodying Laotzu)

[Brian37]

Me, on the story of the infanticide God commits on an Egyptian Pharaoh because he wouldn't obey.

"Ok, so if I were a judge in court and a jury convicted you of armed robbery and murder of the bank clerk, would that entitle me to murder the bank robber's first born son because of something he did?"

[Cyberman]

Particularly if it was something you forced him to do.

[The Valkyrie]

"If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people."
- Gregory House.

[Brian37]

Particularly if it was something you forced him to do.

BINGO, and just like the garden story, the entire thing is a RIGGED BET that the pawns have no say in. 

If you want to start a casino out in the desert without regulation, THAT is a playbook

[The Valkyrie]

"so, you're saying your god is all powerful and all knowing, as well as all perfect, but it still needs to test it's followers, and gets things wrong? That your faith should be all we need to believe in YOUR god but the faith others have in different gods is ridiculous and wrong? DO you ever listen to yourself or read back on what you write. or do you just write it and think 'they can't argue about this!'"
- Me, on a FB post to a conservative religious moron.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'Bone cancer in children?  What's THAT about?' - Stephen Fry, on being asked what would he would say if he met God.

Boru

[Whateverist]

I sometimes use this for my signature. Not particularly irreverent but a favorite nonetheless. To me it is about not getting too smug. Anyone who declares victory has put down the search to understand in order to have a rest. This fits so well in regard to all the answers to life's big questions so often celebrated by Christians.


“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”


― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

[chimp3]

Chimp3: "All religious scriptures are human in origin. As an atheist I am not prohibited from making use of them. I am free to cherry pick any scripture and incorporate it into my world view."

[Angrboda]

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
Friedrich Nietzsche