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| Reality is that which, when you cease to believe, continues to exist. | Zep, paraphrasing Phillip K. Dick | ||||
| I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. | Stephen Hawking | ||||
| We are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. | Stephen F. Robert | ||||
| It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. | Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love | ||||
| Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. | Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love | ||||
| One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. | Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love | ||||
| History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it. | Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love | ||||
| The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. | Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love | ||||
| Whe any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. | Robert A. Heinlein, If This Goes On | ||||
| I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. | Rita Rudner | ||||
| Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. | Richard Dawkins | ||||
| Many of saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. | Richard Dawkins | ||||
| We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. | Richard Dawkins | ||||
| Luck is probability taken personally. | Rebecca Watson, AKA Skepchick | ||||
| I have yet to see the problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. | Poul Anderson | ||||
| If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. | P. G. Wodehouse | ||||
| "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." | Mark Twain | ||||
| No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power governments, and tyrants, and armies cannot stand. | G'Kar, The Long, Twilight Struggle, Babylon 5 | ||||
| The unclouded eye is better, no matter what it sees. | Frank Herbert, Dune | ||||
| Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. | Frank Herbert, Dune | ||||
