If God loves us and wants us to follow him why did he cover his tracks so well? That's one sick and twisted deity....
Ask me about the Good News of a godless reality!
Isn't it ironic that Republican deregulation leads to massive mergers and companies that cannot be allowed to fail else the whole economy fails--leading to the need for the government to step in and regulate?
People under-appreciate the significance of randomness in our daily lives, and we all pay the price daily...
30 years of deregulation, privatization, market self-governance, deficit spending, and 'lower taxes to raise tax revenues' - and look where it got us? This experiment is OVER!
Some people are so 'normal' they find they don't know anyone else like themselves.
The more we learn, the more vague religion must become.
It's not truth. It's tradition.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Phillip K. Dick
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave. - William Drummond
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. - Christopher Hitchens
Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s? - Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people. - Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. - Anonymous
On the first day, man created God. - Anonymous
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
You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate. - Richard A. Weatherwax
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. - Anonymous
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. - Don Hirschberg
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. - Mark Twain
Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. - Voltaire
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
If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. - Woody Allen
A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it. - David Stevens
It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain
Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. - Steven Colbert
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins
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
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. To this consideration we ought to ascribe the absence of any regulation, respecting religion, from the Magna-Charta of our country. - George Washington, responding to a group of clergymen who complained that the Constitution lacked mention of Jesus Christ, in 1789
What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong. - Thomas Jefferson
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. - Thomas Jefferson
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church. - Thomas Jefferson
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle. - Benjamin Franklin
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies. - Benjamin Franklin
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. - James Madison
We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions ... shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power ... we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society. - John Adams
As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed? - John Adams
When the Know-Nothings get control, it [the Declaration of Independence] will read: All men are created equal except negroes, foreigners and Catholics. When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. - Abraham Lincoln
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. 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
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves. - Thomas Paine
Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin. - Thomas Paine
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved or disproved, the Church, which like former impostors had then gotten possession of the State, had everything its own way. It invented creeds, such as that called the Apostle's Creed, the Nicean Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and out of the loads of rubbish that were presented it voted four to be Gospels, and others to be Epistles, as we now find them arranged. - Thomas Paine
My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them. - Abraham Lincoln
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos. - Chief Justice John Marshall
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