Secular Quotes

Themes:
skepticism is good
religion is illogical
religion is dangerous



The Quotes:

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
--Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; 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 (1879-1955)

"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 (1921-1991)

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
--Carl Sagan (1934-1997)

"I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them." ibid., p. 226
--Galileo Galilei (1564--1642)

"The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty."
--Stephen Hawking (1942-present)

"Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world."
--John Burroughs (1837-1921)

"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."
--Albert Camus (1913-1960)

"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."
--Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence."
--Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
--Richard Dawkins (1941-persent)

"Man... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." Letters from the Earth
--Samuel Clemens / Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars or that a cat should play with mice"
--Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

"An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power."
--Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)

"It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous."
--Gloria Steinem (1934-present)

"I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously."
--Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

"I can't embrace a male god who has persecuted female sexuality throughout the ages. And that persecution still goes on today all over the world."
--Amanda Donohoe (1962-present)

"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window."
--Stephen King (1947-persent)

"Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine."
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty."
--Ilka Chase (1900-1978)

"There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as The Dark Ages."
--Ruth Hurmence Green (1915-1981)

"Religion is a byproduct of fear... For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?"
--Arthur C. Clarke (1917-present)




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[strawberEfieldz4ever]

"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time." -Thomas Jefferson

[SecularAstronomer]

@strawberEfieldz4ever

How does a quote affirming Jefferson's belief that a deity exists undermine his message that one should question the proposition that a one exists, and that reason/skepticism is beneficial, regardless?

And I clearly stated in the description area that the first of the three quote themes in this video is the promotion of skepticism.

[PINEBOXPIC]

religion is faith,faith is believing in whats unseen...if you have no faith then your just as useless as an astray on a motorcycle...we are created images and the things around you are created...which means there is a Creator..if you could see that CREATOR then faith would have no meaning..it takes pure ignorance to believe that your physical form and body functions which are perfectly put in place where accidently created by some coincidence..

[SecularAstronomer]

"[If] you could see that CREATOR then faith would have no meaning."

There is little functional difference between belief in that which is seen and that which is unseen, as long as both are based on evidence.

[SecularAstronomer]

"[It] takes pure ignorance to believe that your physical form and body functions which are perfectly put in place [were accidentally] created by some coincidence."

And it is every bit as ignorant to think that anyone believes that hominids were "[accidentally] created by some coincidence," as you have just stated.

[SecularAstronomer]

Again, a history of successive divergences via natural mechanisms from common ancestral populations is no accident or coincidence.

By the same token, when you drop a handful of coins, it is no coincidence that they all accelerate in the same direction. It is because they are all acted on by a natural force. The net increase in fitness of a population via natural selection is likewise naturally driven.

[Sidragrosm]

Twain, Blake, Milton... If people only read them, as opposed to those overblown press kits (from the Wretched 3)..? I suspect the world would be far better off.

"Reason asks questions that may or may not be answered; Religion gives answers that one is forbidden to question"

Great compilation. nice vid. (would have preffered the Goldberg variations, but to each his own.)

Sidragrosm

[MrMentalflossed]

I am all of these and all of thee ,..be not afraid i made you free,.. ADUM! what IS

[jaqzzzz]

:)

"There are only two ways of living. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The second is that everything is a miracle, I believe in the latter." ---- Albert Einstein

"I used to be a atheist, till I thought I was God." --- John Lennon

[CreedChrist]

such modernism and relativism smeared all over this video.

[Paulomycin]

Emily: [Where does this "pop-atheism" come from?] It is in common usage on a routine Google search. It's more or less a pejorative that's more pseudo intellectual than academic.

For example, pop-atheists with no background in existentialism will attempt to claim they have a moral standard they can appeal to without God. These same individuals have never heard of anomie.

Another example is when pop-atheists confuse science with scientism. Which is not science, but a philosophical idealism.

[EmilyRoseLR1]

@Paulomycin

Where does this term "pop-atheism" come from?

[Paulomycin]

@SecularAstronomer Jefferson is correct here. There's nothing wrong with healthy skepticism. Because skepticism is a means, rather than an ends. Pop-atheism maintains a perpetual skepticism as both the ends and its own virtue.

If you're going to ask questions, then never assume you'll never get an answer.