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


Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest
~Denis Diderot

The Christian God is a being of terrific character -- cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust.
~Thomas Jefferson

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.
~Benjamin Franklin

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;
for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
~Thomas Paine

Oft times the lowest lying fruit is the sweetest, while the highest has dried and withered beneath the harsh sun.
~3-4-10

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
~Sydney J. Harris

I can't understand why people are
frightened of new ideas.
I'm frightened of the old ones.
~John Cage

People's memory spans are equivalent to a stone.
~7-10-10

The best way to teach a lesson is to make them regret ever having to learn it.
~2-2-11

Only the fires of Hell could create such a heavenly bond.
~4-3-11

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.
~Richard Dawkins

I seek the the comfort pf the bereaved, for they know none, and I seek none.
~9-19-11

I learn from my past mistakes so that I am free to make entirely new ones.
~10-8-11

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An Civil-Libertarian Atheist.