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"There is no God" -First words of the Muslim shahada
"Thou shall have no other gods" - Exodus 20:3 1
"How a slave loves it's chains!" -Thruthem
"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true." -Mark Twain
"The first step towards philosophy is incredulity." -Denis Diderot
"Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind." -Giordano Bruno
"The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself." -Thales of Miletus
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." -Andre Gide
"A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes." -James Feibleman
"One good school teacher is of more use than a hundred priests." -Thomas Paine
"The last refuge of a man with no knowledge and no answers is 'It came from god'." -George Carlin
"Religious indoctrination of children is the worst form of child abuse; it is rape of the mind, body & spirit." -Thruthem
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." -Christopher Hitchens
"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood." -Santayana
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right." -HL Mencken
"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum." -Thomas Paine
"Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion and love the only priest." -Robert G. Ingersoll
Priests, Rabbis & Imams work to keep you ignorant and afraid so they can have free access to your pocketbook and your children. -Thruthem
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." -Bertrand Russell
"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." -John Locke
"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
"All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final."
"To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing." -Hypatia of Alexandria
The original bible was actually written from right to left and so today is terribly misunderstood. It is actually a wonderful book that starts with four friends on a lovely horse ride and ends in a beautiful garden with a lovers' tryst! -Thruthem
Prayer is a common symptom of various strains of the monotheism virus. The difference among them is that the Christians grovel to the ceiling, the Jews to the wall and the Muslims to the floor. -Thruthem
"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish." -Albert Einstein
"The idea of a personal god is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously." -Albert Einstein, letter to Hoffman and Dukas, 1946
"I am a deeply religious nonbeliever.... This is a somewhat new kind of religion." -Albert Einstein, in a letter to Hans Muehsam, March 30, 1954 -Albert Einstein
"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for 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
"There is no absolute knowledge.
And those who claim it,
whether they are scientists or dogmatists,
open the door to tragedy.
All information is imperfect.
We have to treat it with humility."
-Jacob Bronowski
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11th century Persian poem:
Allah, perchance, the secret word might spell;
If Allah be, He keeps His secret well;
What He hath hidden, who shall hope to find?
Shall God His secret to a maggot tell?
The Koran! Well, come put me to the test—
Lovely old book in hideous error drest—
Believe me, I can quote the Koran too,
The unbeliever knows his Koran best.
And do you think that unto such as you,
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew,
God gave the secret, and denied it me?—
Well, well, what matters it!
Believe that too.