Irreverent Quotes

[vulcanlogician]

I thought it might be fun to have a thread where people posted their favorite irreverent quotes. There are no limitations as to the object of a quote's irreverence, but I predict we will see a theme will emerge once the thread gets going.


"After coming into contact with a religious man, I always feel I must was my hands."
          --Friedrich Nietzsche


"And on the trillionth day, man created Gods."
          --Thomas D. Pate

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.' -  Poe

'The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.' - Voltaire

Boru

[Brian37]

Me, "If our species never questioned social norms, our species never would have left the caves."

[Cod]

"I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they are responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him I'd want nothing to do with them."
_Philip Pullman

[Cyberman]

All from Colonel Ingersoll:

"The doctrine of eternal punishment is the infamy of infamies. As I have often said, the man who believes in eternal torment, in the justice of endless pain, is suffering from at least two diseases: petrifaction of the heart and putrefaction of the brain."

"The doctor of theology has lost his power. Theological thunder has lost its lightning; it is nothing now but noise, pleasing those who make it and amusing those who hear."

"The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know."

"There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven."

"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."

"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie."

I could go on. He's an eminently quotable man.

[Cyberman]

"Creationists are like tourists walking around New York with a map of the London Underground, and insisting that the map is correct; it's the city that's wrong."

-- Ooh, that sounds like one of mine..!

[Cod]

"Church is like a pubic hair on a toilet bowl, you soon get pissed off."_Unknown

[Succubus]

“The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing.”

Thomas Paine.

[drfuzzy]

My own view of religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.- Bertrand Russell.

[Succubus]

"You're supposed to shelve it when the man puts the bunny back in the hat, thanks everyone, and says goodnight.  Some people, though, seem to see rabbits popping up from manhole covers on the streets.  These people are impossible to maintain an informative conversation with..they don;t even know what -they're- thinking..truly..and so they inevitably ramble.

This makes me, a natural atheist (lol) who has never given this god shit the time of day or even thought it was anything other than deplorably silly to do so...assume they've either flown the coop..or are bullshitting me with pious theatre. Yeah, they say it, but they don't know what it means..so how could they possibly believe it, let alone defend the proposition in a rational discussion?"

L. H. Mencken Khemikal.