American Myths - and the truths they hide |
A Taste of Atheism |
No idea is too absurd to have believers
Just because parents did it to you
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next [Matthew Arnold]
Nature is to god what the loins are to the heart:
Nothing corrupts a religion faster than power [Rey Barry]
High death rates in nations that can't feed their population is both God's will and nature's survival of the fittest. It's presumptive impudence to interfere [beliefs in common to Christian, Jewish, and Islam fundamentalists]
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity ... [W.B. Yeats]
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them [Einstein]
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know []Michel Eyguem De Montaigne[]
Bibles exists to give people a reference for acting despicably [Rey Barry]
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities [Voltaire]
Faith is the absence of knowledge [by definition]
Moral indignation is usually jealousy with a halo
A belief is not made true because someone dies for it [Rey Barry]
Religion tells us why to hate; parishioners tell us who [Rey Barry]
Wisdom begins with unlearning the nonsense we were taught [Barney Plotnick]
Believing false things can carry real consequences [Rey Barry]
Theology is the logic of children expressed with the language of adults [Doug Purl]
A religion that forgives sin, encourages sin [Rey Barry]
The most chilling sound on Earth is the sound of ignorance praying [Rey Barry]
Fear causes us to create gods and devils, but religion taken seriously is a mental disorder [Rey Barry]
Religion is the siren song of irrationality [Rey Barry]
You can't reason someone out of something they weren't reasoned into [Mark Twain]
Too many folks pray for you so they can prey on you
"A personal relationship with Christ" is merely shifting the blame [Rey Barry]
Deities are for those who flunk cause and effect
Popular religions are all to the stable born
When you hear them praying, it's time to check the lock on the barn [Harry Truman]
For the love of god, come when you're called
Imagine bringing up children in a ritualistic cult
Piety - often the first refuge of a scoundrel
You spent all eternity submissive? How droll
Religion is a social disease
Some folks are forever backstage awaiting a cue
Life is the final release, not a Beta
Religions exist to keep the poor from murdering the rest
one is responsible for what the other gets credit [Rey Barry]
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