Post (anti) Religious quotes here

**Solarflare** · 08-21-2011 04:56 AM

Post any religious quotes or atheistic quots you like. And please (unlike every single other thread here) Dont turn this into a debate over whos right or wrong blah blah, there are 10000000 other threads for that.

If you would find the athiestic/ religious quotes offensive, dont read them kay?

anyways ill start with some atheistic quotes

''Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. – Seneca the Younger''

''Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.''

anyways, quote away

**Descensus** · 08-21-2011 05:11 AM

H.L. Mencken

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.

True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge. Did Darrow, in the course of his dreadful bombardment of Bryan, drop a few shells, incidentally, into measurably cleaner camps? Then let the garrisons of those camps look to their defenses. They are free to shoot back. But they can't disarm their enemy.

There's a reason why I love Mencken.

**Solarflare** · 08-21-2011 05:14 AM

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. – Steven Weinberg

**Indeed** · 08-21-2011 06:25 AM

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
--Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams was a cool guy. You should read his books.

**JussiKala** · 08-21-2011 07:18 AM

**Seroquel** · 08-21-2011 10:11 AM

God is dead.

**DeeryTheDeer** · 08-21-2011 10:13 AM

Science flies us to the moon.
Religion flies us into buildings.

-not sure who... but best. quote. ever.

**Solarflare** · 08-21-2011 02:51 PM

Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. – Anonymous

remember, religious quotes are allowed as well

**Replicon** · 08-21-2011 05:12 PM

"If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive." -- Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett (in Good Omens)

**Ne-yo** · 08-21-2011 05:15 PM

Here you go.

Originally Posted by Jeremy Collier

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons;
of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners,
and the underminer of property.
~Jeremy Collier

Originally Posted by Arthur Lynch

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually
results in a belief in anything.
~Arthur Lynch

**Scatterbrain** · 08-21-2011 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

Here you go.

I like the second one, but don't get the first.

**Ne-yo** · 08-21-2011 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by Scatterbrain

I like the second one, but don't get the first.

ok.

Originally Posted by Charles Spurgeon

"The atheist is, morally, as well as mentally, a fool, a fool in the heart as well as in the head; a fool in morals as well as in philosophy. With the denial of God as a starting point, we may well conclude that the fool’s progress is a rapid, riotous, raving, ruinous one. He who begins at impiety is ready for anything. 'No God,' being interpreted, means no law, no order, no restraint to lust, no limit to passion."
~Charles Spurgeon

**Xei** · 08-21-2011 10:33 PM

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

"The atheist is, morally, as well as mentally, a fool, a fool in the heart as well as in the head; a fool in morals as well as in philosophy. With the denial of God as a starting point, we may well conclude that the fool’s progress is a rapid, riotous, raving, ruinous one. He who begins at impiety is ready for anything. 'No God,' being interpreted, means no law, no order, no restraint to lust, no limit to passion."
~Charles Spurgeon

Is that why the atheist prison population is 0.2% and whilst Christian is 82%? Okay lol, will make a mental note to try harder at restraining my lust and obeying the law.

**Spartiate** · 08-21-2011 11:01 PM

"And yet it moves..."

- Galileo under his breath when forced to recant before the Inquisition.

**Ne-yo** · 08-21-2011 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by Xei

Is that why the atheist prison population is 0.2% and whilst Christian is 82%? Okay lol, will make a mental note to try harder at restraining my lust and obeying the law.

Hehe, you got offended.

**Descensus** · 08-21-2011 08:47 PM

Is this an anti-religious + atheistic quote thread? Could've sworn it was. Topic title and OP conflict

**Solarflare** · 08-21-2011 08:55 PM

atheist and religious quotes, thats why the anti is in brackets

**Solarflare** · 08-21-2011 10:03 PM

''I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended to forgo their use.''

''A cask of wine works more miracles than a church full of saints.''

**Solarflare** · 08-21-2011 11:21 PM

debate in another thread

**HeavySleeper** · 08-22-2011 03:24 AM

Originally Posted by Solarflare

debate in another thread

You seriously weren't expecting this?

**Solarflare** · 08-22-2011 03:26 AM

Originally Posted by Heavy Sleeper

You seriously weren't expecting this?

oh of course i was expecting it! i'd be willing to create a thread if they have large debates. Small Debates are fine :3

**Solarflare** · 08-21-2011 11:54 PM

if we post anti religious quotes why and he post religious quotes?

**Descensus** · 08-22-2011 12:06 AM

H.L. Mencken

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.

**Solarflare** · 08-22-2011 12:35 AM

''George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.''

**Tbonetyler** · 08-22-2011 01:21 AM

"Lighthouses are more useful than churches." Benjamin Franklin
"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it." John Adams
“Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.” Thomas Jefferson

I got these from Larry Charles' Religulous (2008), starring Bill Maher. You should check it out if you haven't already.