I abhor organized religion. I wish people would embrace reason and logic in place of dogma, myth, and superstition.
I would like to address what I believe to be a common misconception people have about atheism. I have noticed ever since I started to identify myself as an atheist that people seem to think that to be an atheist requires faith. Faith in an absolute. Faith that there absolutely is not a god. This is not true. Atheism is simply the LACK of faith in any particular deity, god, religion, or myth. As Richard Dawkins is fond of pointing out, we are ALL atheists in regards to Thor. Atheists just take it one god further.
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
"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
"...Those opposed to therapeutic stem-cell research on religious grounds constitute the biological and ethical equivalent of a flat-earth society. ...In this area of public policy alone, the accommodations that we have made to faith will do nothing but enshrine a perfect immensity of human suffering for decades to come." - Sam Harris
"We have no reason to expect to survive our religious differences indefinitely. Faith is intrinsically divisive. We have a choice between conversation and war. It was conversation that ended slavery, not faith. Faith is a declaration of immunity to conversation. To make religious war unthinkable, we have to undermine the dogma of faith. The continuance of civilization requires not moderation, but reason." - Sam Harris
"There's no conflict between mysticism and science. But there is a conflict between the science of 2000 BC and the science of 2000 AD. And that's a mess in our religions. We've got stuck with an image of the universe that is about as simple and childish as you could imagine, you know the three level universe and all that of the bible. It's of no use to us. We have to have poets, we have to have seers who will render to us the experience of the transcendence through the world in which we're living." - Joseph Campbell
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