WISE MEN SAY . . .
"All religions have been made by men." ~ Napolean Bonaparte
"All religions are auld wives' fables, but an
honest man has nothing to fear, either in this world or the world to come."
~ Robert Burns
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that
humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." ~ Richard
Dawkins
"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof
of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals,
or of a personal God." ~ Thomas Edison
"The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive".
~ Albert Einstein
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible.
Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies." ~ Ben Franklin
"Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products
of the psychic activity of man." ~ Sigmund Freud
"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is
proved." ~ Galileo
"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very
efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning." ~
Bill
Gates
"I do not believe in a personal God." ~ Stephen
Hawking
"All thinking men are atheists." ~ Ernest Hemingway
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."
~ Christopher Hitchens
"I am convinced that I am acting as the agent
of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work. .
. I am now as before a Catholic and will always
remain so. (1941)" ~ Adolph Hitler
"God so loved the world that he made up his mind
to damn a large majority of the human race." ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
"To argue with a man who has renounced his reason
is like giving medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine
"They came with a Bible and their religion,
stole our land, crushed our spirit, and now tell us we should be thankful
to the Lord for being saved." ~ Chief Pontiac
"For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection
racket -- by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation
and relief . . . by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting
blackmail from the sinners. . . . My philosophy, in essence, is the concept
of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of
his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason
as his only absolute." ~ Ayn Rand
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word
in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." ~ Bertrand Russell
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." ~ Carl Sagan
"In religion what damned error but some sober
brow will bless it, and approve it with a text. . . Methinks sometimes
I have no more wit than a Christian." ~ William Shakespeare
"It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity
than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it." ~ Percy
Bysshe Shelley
"I think the world is being much helped
by the suffering of the poor people." Mother Teresa
"Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent
people. . . . It is hard to free fools from chains they revere." ~ Voltaire
"I do not believe I have any immortality.
The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion." ~ H.G.
Wells
"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but
we won't let them into our country." ~ Pearl S. Buck
"At present there is not a single credible established religion in the
world." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"If there is a God, he is a malign thug. . . The Bible is "a mass of
fables and traditions, mere mythology." ~ Mark Twain
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
"I believe a belief in any deity is adolescent, shameful and dangerous.
. . I do not believe in Heaven, Hell or a Hereafter; in angels, demons,
ghosts, goblins, the Devil, vampires, ghouls, zombies, witches, warlocks,
UFOs or other delusions." ~ Forrest J. Ackerman
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever
conceived." ~ Isaac Asimov
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." ~ Arthur C.
Clarke
"No, I don't believe in God. I'm not a moron. I have to have some proof
of something." ~ Harlan Ellison
"The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that
anyone can 'prove' anything from it." ~ Robert Heinlein
"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
"By simple common sense I don't believe in God,
in none." ~ Charlie Chaplin
"Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different
religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither
can I." ~ Bob Dylan
"Prayers may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal,
and the lazy - but it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring
you something for Christmas." ~ W.C. Fields
"I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's
nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do
what we can for other people." ~ Katharine Hepburn
"I'm an atheist. I can't be elected to anything
because polls all say that people won't elect an atheist." ~ Ron Reagan,
Jr.
"I am an atheist... I don't understand religion
at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think
it's all nonsense." ~ Andy Rooney
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