Eva

I am the first and the last. I am the honored one and the scorned one. I am the whore, and the holy one. I am the wife and the virgin. I am the mother and the daughter...I am she whose wedding is great, and I have not taken a husband...I am knowledge, and ignorance. THUNDER, PERFECT MIND, Gnostic poem, 100 AD
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense."
~Buddha
And I begged, "Angel of the Lord,
what are these tortured screams?"
And the angel said unto me,
"These are the cries of the carrots,
the cries of the carrots!
You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day
and to them it is the holocaust."
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...
Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
"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
"Which is it,
is man one of God's blunders
or is God one of man's?"
~Friedrich Nietzsche
"The question before the human race is,
whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws,
or whether priests and kings shall rule it
by fictitious miracles."
~John Adams
Letter to Thomas Jefferson
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ...
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."
~Mark Twain
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature,
the heart of a heartless world,
& the soul of soulless conditions.
It is the opium of the people."
~Karl Marx
"I was born a heretic.
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do because I notice
it always coincides with their own desires.
~Susan B. Anthony
“If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions,
great is our sin.”
~Charles Darwin