Adeste Infidelis

If you want to get me to believe in anything at all, be it a religion or something else, you have to do more than just tell me what you believe and that I have to believe it. You have to find some way to convince me of its truth. If you are not prepared to present evidence for something, then you should not be attempting to get people to believe it. Because without proof, you won't get very far. That is all.

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"The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence."
-- Abu Ala Al-Ma'arri

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, 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?"
-- Dan Barker

"I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent."
-Arthur C. Clarke

"Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops."
-Richard Dawkins

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
Priest: "No, not if you did not know."
Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
-Annie Dillard

"He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave."
-William Drummond

"The only church that illuminates is a burning church."
- Buenaventura Durruti

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
-Epicurus

"We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected."
-Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Century Dalai Lama

"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof"
-Christopher Hitchens

"Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?"
-Robert G. Ingerscroll

"There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages."
-Richard Lederer

"Praying is like a rocking chair-- it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere"
-Gypsy Rose Lee

"The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."
-Gustaf Lindborg

"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

"Jesus' last words on the cross, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here."
-Donald Morgan

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion."
-Robert M. Pirsig

"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

"I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it."
-Edith Sitwell

"You know what, I was wrong. Jesus is a pretty cool guy; when he was born I got presents, when he died I got chocolate."
-WolfsStorm

"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

"If god doesn't like the way I live, Let him tell me, not you."
-Unknown

"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."
-Unknown

"Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence."
-Unknown

"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-Unknown

*silence*
-God

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