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LONG LIVE THE DEAD And now it's time for some quotes. There are no such things as good and evil. There are only circumstances and consequences. -- Me I tell you this; the current generation will either make us immortal or wipe us from the face of the Earth. -- Me What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. -- Don Hirschberg The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. -- Douglas Adams Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? -- Douglas Adams There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can’t prove that there aren’t any, so shouldn’t we be agnostic with respect to fairies? -- Richard Dawkins We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so. -- Richard Dawkins, Free Inquiry, Summer, 2002 We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. -- Richard Dawkins Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. -- Richard Dawkins The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. -- Richard Dawkins It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -- Carl Sagan I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. -- Carl Sagan Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. -- Steven Colbert It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -- Voltaire I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug McLeod Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; 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 Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. -- Chapman Cohen When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. -- Robert Pirsig I wonder who got the shit job of scouring the planet for the 15000 species of butterfly or the 8800 species of ant they eventually took on board Noah’s Ark. But at least we got that magical rainbow for all their trouble. -- Azura Skye 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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. -- George Bernard Shaw, Preface to Androcles and the Lion People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. -- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy If we are going to teach ‘creation science’ as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. -- Judith Hayes To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. -- David Brooks We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn’t been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. -- Catherine Fahringer Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -- Isaac Asimov Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. -- Isaac Asimov Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. -- Thomas Jefferson, Toward the Mystery Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. -- Thomas Jefferson I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My mind is my own church. 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 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 Are we atheists passionate about something? Hell yes. I'm passionate about my family -- people for whom I'd give my life. It wouldn't matter whether a god was dead, nonexistent, or hovering over my shoulder. I'm passionate about science, a process that actively and explicitly excludes gods and the supernatural, whether they exist or not. I'm passionate about my students, and in most cases I don't have a clue what religion, if any, they practice ... and it wouldn't matter in the least anyway. And oh, yeah, I'm passionate about atheism, but atheism isn't about nothing: it's about valuing reason over superstition, about conquering unfounded fears, about facing the real world without crutches and lies to hold you up. I'm sure someone is going to sit there and dissect the letters of the word and tell me that atheism means only an absence of belief in gods, but screw that -- it's about a whole philosophy of thought that is built on materialism and naturalism. It is an idea with substance. -- PZ Myers For the reason that a priest considers sin, for the reason that a police officer considers crime, for the reason that a doctor considers disease; I consider religion. Not to cherish or esteem or glorify, but to understand, to assuage, and to remedy. If you find these quotes offensive, so be it.
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