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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 10/14/2006 10:32:51 AM | On going to war over religion; You're basically killing each other to prove who's got the better imaginary friend. Richard Jeni.
The west won the world not by the superiority of it's ideas or values or religion but rather its superiority in applying organized violence.Westerners often forget this fact, Non-westerners never do.Samuel P Huntington
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.Stephen Weinberg
In religion and politics, peoples beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. Mark Twain
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. Arthur Shopenhauer
The more i study religions the more im convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Richard Burton | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 10/14/2006 11:39:48 AM | Love the Burton quote - if I had heroes, Burton would be mine.
You can't do better than Freddy Nietzsche though:
Faith is not wanting to know what is true. | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 12:59:57 PM | "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright
"I contend that 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."
- Sir Stephen Henry Roberts
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
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Posted: 10/14/2006 6:23:17 PM | To you I'm an atheist. To god I'm the loyal opposition.
-Woody Allen
If god lived on earth, people would break his window's.
-Yiddish proverb | |
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Posted: 10/14/2006 10:15:44 PM | The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absense in Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum
Havelock Ellis
Is Man one of God's blunders, or is God one of Man's blunders?
Friederich Nietzsche
Mythology is what grownups believe, folklore is what they tell children and religion is both.
Walt Whitman
A cult is a religion with no political power.
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Posted: 10/15/2006 10:17:17 AM | This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
The Dalai Lama
"During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. The Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church, after doing its duty in but a lazy and indolent way for 800 years, gathered up its halters, thumbscrews, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry." — Mark Twain.
Does anyone know who who the authors of these two are?
"Organized religion is too political for my spirituality"
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"Your dogma ran over my karma" or "My karma ran over your dogma" | |
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Posted: 10/16/2006 5:46:08 AM |
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
The Dalai Lama
Except if I as authoritarian head of the religion decide - like many authoritarian heads eventually do - to persecute a subset of my religion and violently suppress them. Then kindness is suspended for the good of all. | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 10/17/2006 9:33:32 AM | Brian: I'm NOT the messiah!
Arthur: I say you are Lord, and I should know. I've followed a few.
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Brian: I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly!
Girl: Only the true messiah denies his divinity.
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Follow the gourd! | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 10/17/2006 10:13:43 AM |
Are you refering to the Dalai Lama? If so, I am interested...
Yes - specifically his violent suppression and persecution of the Dorje Shugden sect (of which he was once a member). | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 10/18/2006 6:23:23 PM | “Yes, I rather like this God fellow. He's very theatrical, you know, a pestilence here, a plague there. Omnipotence. Gotta get me some of that.” – Stewie, Family Guy
"Every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten." -- ???
"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely; God is all-powerful. Draw your own conclusions." -- www.infidels.org
"God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the Andes and I had to eat him." -- t-shirt
"Snakes are God's way of saying: Hey, look! A snake!" -- Andy Pierson
"The Three shall spread their blackened wings and be the vengeful striking hammer of God." -- Il Duce, The Boondock Saints
“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.” – Hunter S Thompson
“If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.” – Lee Trevino
"Keaton always said, I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him. Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze." -- Verbal Kint, The Usual Suspects
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty." -- Albert Einstein
"Twas only fear first in the world made gods." -- Ben Jonson
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one, he must approve the homage of reason rather than of blindfolded fear." -- Francis Wheen
"I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time." -- Isaac Asimov
"Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God." -- Tony Blake
“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.” -- Emo Philips
"I like my women like my religion...quiet and well-mannered except when playing on the organ." -- www.jokeaday.com
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." -- Han Solo, Star Wars
"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion." -- L Ron Hubbard
"Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable." -- Ambrose Bierce
"Jesus loves me - but I just want to be friends." -- bumper sticker
“Once my friend told me that he had found Jesus. I thought to myself, ‘WooHoo, we're rich!’ It turns out he meant something different.” – Jack Handey
"If you love Jesus, work for justice - anybody can honk." -- bumper sticker
"A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back he ever wants to see a f***ing cross? It's like going up to Jackie Onassis wearing a rifle pendant." -- Bill Hicks
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 10/19/2006 10:34:29 PM | Some of my favorites come from Thomas Paine...although they are aimed at Christendom, they can be levelled at any religion or belief that claims religious exclusivity and a bloody, violent past...
Harsh criticism. Some might say not harsh enough.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
-- Thomas Paine, (1737-1809), The Age of Reason, pt. 1, "The Author's Profession of Faith" (1794), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.
-- Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-- Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
There is scarcely any part of science, or anything in nature, which those imposters and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well Christians as Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superstition and falsehood.
-- Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on nothing; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing and admits of no conclusion.
-- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1793-5), quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything.
-- Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.
-- Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
What is it the New Testament teaches us? To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
-- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794)
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.
-- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1793-5), quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.
-- Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
The Bible is a book that has been read more, and examined less, than any book that ever existed.
-- Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.
-- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1793), quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up.
-- Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved or disproved, the Church, which like former impostors had then gotten possession of the State, had everything its own way. It invented creeds, such as that called the Apostle's Creed, the Nicean Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and out of the loads of rubbish that were presented it voted four to be Gospels, and others to be Epistles, as we now find them arranged.
-- Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon that the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.
-- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794)
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of atheism -- a sort of religious denial of God. It professed to believe in man rather than in God. It is as near to atheism as twilight to darkness. It introduces between man and his Maker an opaque body, which it calls a Redeemer, as the moon introduces her opaque self between the earth and the sun, and it produces by this means a religious or irreligious eclipse of the light. It has put the whole orbit of reason into shade.
-- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794)
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.
-- Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations), also found inVictor J Stenger, Has Science Found God? (2001)
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! this is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!
-- Thomas Paine, as quoted by Joseph Lewis in Inspiration and Wisdom from the Writings of Thomas Paine (which contains no pagination or source citations)
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that the human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God. The Word of God exists in something else.
-- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 10/24/2006 12:25:57 AM | Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
The Buddha
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha | |
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Posted: 10/24/2006 11:17:22 AM | | The Religion that is afraid of science dishonours God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God's empires but is not the immutable universal law. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion and making way for truth........Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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Posted: 10/24/2006 11:26:42 AM | "The atheist can't find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer." - Unknown
"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark." - Lewis, C.S.
"How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook." - Unknown | |
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| My favourite quotes regarding religion.
Posted: 10/25/2006 2:27:26 AM | | The fool has said in his heart there is no God. If people would truly take the time to know God they would have no doubt he is real | |
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