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| + | [[Image:Procrastination.jpg|thumb|none|200px|That's me!!]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Susancar1.jpg|thumb|none|200px|my car in what was my parent's back garden (yard?) about 2001]] | ||
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| + | ==E.L.Wisty Quotes== | ||
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| + | *If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that. | ||
| + | **"The World Domination League", 1964 | ||
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| + | *It's a wonderful league, the World Domination League. The aims, as published in the manifesto, are total domination of the world by 1958. That's what we're planning to do. We've had to revise it. We're hoping to bring a new manifesto out with a more realistic target. | ||
| + | **"The World Domination League", 1964 | ||
| + | |||
| + | *He was another dominator you know - Hitler. And he was a wonderful ballroom dancer. Not many people know that... Of course Mrs Hitler was a charming woman, wasn't she? She's still alive, you know. I saw her down the Egdware Road only the other day. She'd just popped into the chemist's to buy something, and I saw her sign the cheque "Mrs Hitler" so I knew it was she. | ||
| + | **"The World Domination League", 1964 | ||
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| + | *If I did become Minister of Nudism, I'd be allowed to be on television every evening around nine thirty. I'd come on and say "Good evening. This is the Minister of Nudism. Take off your clothes and begin to dance about." | ||
| + | **"Peace Through Nudism", 1964 | ||
| + | |||
| + | *Poor old Spotty Muldoon. He thought of splitting the atom the other day. If only he could have had the idea about thirty years ago, he'd have made a bloody fortune. | ||
| + | **"The Man Who Invented The Wheel", 1964 | ||
| + | |||
| + | *Bleendreeble specialises in the universe. He doesn't branch out much beyond that. But he's quite intereted in this limited field. | ||
| + | **"Food For Thought", 1964 | ||
| + | |||
| + | *If a dog starts biting you, you can't kick it up the throat like it deserves. People always say "Oh dear, poor little dog, he was only trying to be friendly. That's the way he tries to be friendly, sniffing at your ankles and biting you, you cruel, wicked man." | ||
| + | **"Man's Best Friend", 1964 | ||
| + | <font color = "blue"> ''(from Wikiquote [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Cook])''</font> | ||
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| + | <br><br><br><font size="+2" face="Fantasy, Times New Roman, Times, serif">'''There's a wonderful family called Stein,<br><br> | ||
| + | '''There's Gert and there's Epp and there's Ein;<br><br> | ||
| + | '''Gert's poems are bunk,<br><br> | ||
| + | '''Epp's statues are junk,<br><br> | ||
| + | '''And no one can understand Ein.'''<br><br></font> | ||
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| + | ''"May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children <br>chase you so far over the hills of Damnation<br>that | ||
| + | the Lord himself can't find you with a telescope." (Irish Curse) | ||
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| + | ''"I don't think you are a fool, but what's my opinion compared to that of thousands of others"'' (Generic) | ||
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| + | A.S.: ''"He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued."'' (Aesop) | ||
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| + | <br><br><font size="+2" face="Comic Sans, Fantasy">''' "You are on the Road to Hell,"<br><br> | ||
| + | '''You tell me with fanatic glee:<br><br> | ||
| + | '''Vain boaster, what shall that avail<br><br> | ||
| + | '''If Hell is on the road to thee?'''</font><br> | ||
| + | (Saki)<br><br> | ||
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| + | [http://www.evilbible.com/Top_Ten_List.htm evilbible dot com] | ||
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| + | <b><font size="4">10</font></b> - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other | ||
| + | religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.<br> | ||
| + | <br> | ||
| + | <b><font size="4">9</font></b> - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved | ||
| + | from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we | ||
| + | were | ||
| + | created from dirt.<br> | ||
| + | |||
| + | <br> | ||
| + | <b><font size="4">8 </font></b>- You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.<br> | ||
| + | <br> | ||
| + | <b><font size="4">7</font></b> - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to | ||
| + | Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered | ||
| + | all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic | ||
| + | groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!<br> | ||
| + | |||
| + | <br> | ||
| + | <b><font size="4">6</font></b> - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods | ||
| + | sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit | ||
| + | impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to | ||
| + | life and then ascended into the sky.<br> | ||
| + | <br> | ||
| + | <b><font size="4">5</font></b> - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the | ||
| + | scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find | ||
| + | nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in | ||
| + | their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.<br> | ||
| + | <br> | ||
| + | <b><font size="4">4</font></b> - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of | ||
| + | those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will | ||
| + | spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion | ||
| + | the most "tolerant" and "loving."</p> | ||
| + | |||
| + | <p class="MsoNormal"> <br> | ||
| + | <b><font size="4">3</font></b> - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to | ||
| + | convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in | ||
| + | "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.<br> | ||
| + | <br> | ||
| + | <b><font size="4">2</font></b> - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. | ||
| + | |||
| + | You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the | ||
| + | remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.<br> | ||
| + | <br> | ||
| + | <b><font size="4">1</font></b> - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the | ||
| + | Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.</td> | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Quotes nicked from CP's Essay:Pro athyeism quotes== | ||
| + | |||
| + | Unbeknownst to many, there actually exists '''pro-atheism quotes'''. While we here at Conservapedia have already stated our [[Atheism|unbiased opinion on atheists]], we believe that the other side must be represented in order to meet our standards of [[Conservatism|neutrality]]. | ||
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| + | ==Quotes== | ||
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| + | {{Cquote|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.}} | ||
| + | -[[Stephen Roberts]] | ||
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| + | {{Cquote|Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.}} | ||
| + | -[[Seneca the Younger]] 4 BC - AD 65 | ||
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| + | {{Cquote|Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.}} | ||
| + | -[[Blaise Pascal]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.}} | ||
| + | -[[Bertrand Russell]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.}} | ||
| + | -[[George Bernard Shaw]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.}} | ||
| + | -Unknown | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church.}} | ||
| + | -Unknown | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes}} | ||
| + | -[[Gene Roddenberry]] | ||
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| + | {{Cquote|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]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe.}} | ||
| + | -[[Carl Sagan]] | ||
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| + | {{Cquote|The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.}} | ||
| + | -[[Ferdinand Magellan]] | ||
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| + | {{Cquote|A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.}} | ||
| + | -[[Albert Einstein]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.}} | ||
| + | -[[Napoleon Bonaparte]] | ||
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| + | {{Cquote|[[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.}} | ||
| + | -Unknown | ||
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| + | {{Cquote|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]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|Man created God in his image : intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.}} | ||
| + | -Marie | ||
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| + | {{Cquote|I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.}} | ||
| + | -[[Thomas Jefferson]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.}} | ||
| + | -[[Robert G. Ingersoll]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion.}} | ||
| + | -[[John Adams]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason}} | ||
| + | -[[Benjamin Franklin]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished.}} | ||
| + | -[[Justin Brown]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.}} | ||
| + | -[[Terry Pratchett]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{Cquote|The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.}} | ||
| + | -[[Richard Francis Burton]] (1821-1890) | ||
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| + | |||
| + | ==Moer Quotes== | ||
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| + | {{cquote|In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.||| Heinrich Heine, Gedanken und Einfalle}} | ||
| + | {{cquote|Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances,... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.|||St. Augustine, De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim}} | ||
| + | {{cquote|Remember, Age and treachery overcome youth and skill. We are taking notes.|||Philip Balister (Who he?)}} | ||
| + | {{cquote|I find it easier to disagree across the board, because then I don't have to argue specific points, and if I start to lose I can just resort to name-calling.||| Steve Bajzek (Who he?)}} | ||
| + | {{cquote|Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.|||P.T. Barnum}} | ||
| + | {{cquote|When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to a man in a blind rush until it's too late.|||Bene Gesserit proverb, Dune (Frank Herbert?)}} | ||
| + | {{cquote|Never before have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church?|||Blackadder}} | ||
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| + | [[Image:AlabamaEvo.jpg|right]] | ||
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| + | [http://www.nobodyhere.com/justme/ Eggselllllent LenkSpam] | ||
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| + | [http://christianityisbullshit.com/2007/12/15/religion-marcus-brigstocke/ Love that Guy] | ||
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| + | [[User:SusanG/disclaimers]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | [http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2007/10/atheists-and-an.html Excellent rant] | ||
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| + | {{cquote|You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help|||Mark Twain}} | ||
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E.L.Wisty Quotes
- If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.
- "The World Domination League", 1964
- It's a wonderful league, the World Domination League. The aims, as published in the manifesto, are total domination of the world by 1958. That's what we're planning to do. We've had to revise it. We're hoping to bring a new manifesto out with a more realistic target.
- "The World Domination League", 1964
- He was another dominator you know - Hitler. And he was a wonderful ballroom dancer. Not many people know that... Of course Mrs Hitler was a charming woman, wasn't she? She's still alive, you know. I saw her down the Egdware Road only the other day. She'd just popped into the chemist's to buy something, and I saw her sign the cheque "Mrs Hitler" so I knew it was she.
- "The World Domination League", 1964
- If I did become Minister of Nudism, I'd be allowed to be on television every evening around nine thirty. I'd come on and say "Good evening. This is the Minister of Nudism. Take off your clothes and begin to dance about."
- "Peace Through Nudism", 1964
- Poor old Spotty Muldoon. He thought of splitting the atom the other day. If only he could have had the idea about thirty years ago, he'd have made a bloody fortune.
- "The Man Who Invented The Wheel", 1964
- Bleendreeble specialises in the universe. He doesn't branch out much beyond that. But he's quite intereted in this limited field.
- "Food For Thought", 1964
- If a dog starts biting you, you can't kick it up the throat like it deserves. People always say "Oh dear, poor little dog, he was only trying to be friendly. That's the way he tries to be friendly, sniffing at your ankles and biting you, you cruel, wicked man."
- "Man's Best Friend", 1964
(from Wikiquote [1])
There's a wonderful family called Stein,
There's Gert and there's Epp and there's Ein;
Gert's poems are bunk,
Epp's statues are junk,
And no one can understand Ein.
"May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children
chase you so far over the hills of Damnation
that
the Lord himself can't find you with a telescope." (Irish Curse)
"I don't think you are a fool, but what's my opinion compared to that of thousands of others" (Generic)
A.S.: "He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued." (Aesop)
"You are on the Road to Hell,"
You tell me with fanatic glee:
Vain boaster, what shall that avail
If Hell is on the road to thee?
(Saki)
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other
religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved
from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we
were
created from dirt.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to
Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered
all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic
groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods
sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit
impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to
life and then ascended into the sky.
5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the
scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find
nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in
their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of
those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will
spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion
the most "tolerant" and "loving."</p>
3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to
convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in
"tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.
2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers.
You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the
remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the
Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.</td>
Quotes nicked from CP's Essay:Pro athyeism quotes
Unbeknownst to many, there actually exists pro-atheism quotes. While we here at Conservapedia have already stated our unbiased opinion on atheists, we believe that the other side must be represented in order to meet our standards of neutrality.
Quotes
“”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.
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“”Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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-Seneca the Younger 4 BC - AD 65
“”Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.
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“”And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.
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“”The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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“”Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
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-Unknown
“”Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church.
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-Unknown
“”We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes
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“”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.
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“”You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe.
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“”The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.
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“”A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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“”Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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“”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.
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-Unknown
“”Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
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“”Man created God in his image : intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.
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-Marie
“”I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
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“”As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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“”The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion.
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“”The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason
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“”An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished.
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“”The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
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“”The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
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-Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
Moer Quotes
“”In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
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| — Heinrich Heine, Gedanken und Einfalle |
“”Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances,... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.
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| —St. Augustine, De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim |
“”Remember, Age and treachery overcome youth and skill. We are taking notes.
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| —Philip Balister (Who he?) |
“”I find it easier to disagree across the board, because then I don't have to argue specific points, and if I start to lose I can just resort to name-calling.
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| — Steve Bajzek (Who he?) |
“”Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
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| —P.T. Barnum |
“”When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to a man in a blind rush until it's too late.
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| —Bene Gesserit proverb, Dune (Frank Herbert?) |
“”Never before have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church?
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| —Blackadder |
“”You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help
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| —Mark Twain |



