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Some more excellent sayings to repudiate religious nuts.

There is no god. Great answers.

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?

Faith requires an absence of knowledge. An absence of knowledge is ignorance.
Thus, by definition, to embrace faith is to embrace ignorance. Faith and knowledge cannot sit side by side.

Lighten up a bit

Try to imagine the conversation when Mary told Joseph she was with child!

"Joseph, I'm pregnant"........"But Mary, we haven’t had sex and I'm your husband"......."
"Yes, I know that Joseph, but the child is Gods"........"In fact God has made me pregnant with himself as the child"........"Now you know I wouldn't lie Joseph"

"Joseph?"

"Oh really dear, God you say, Still a virgin looking like that........?"?

"Joseph - Why are you picking up them pebbles?.................Joseph...............!!!!

All religions are founded on the fears of the many and the cleverness of the few”……………………………..Stendhal

"It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science." [Darwin]
"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." [Voltaire]
All religions are founded on the fears of the many and the cleverness of the few”……………………………..Stendhal
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true." [Nietzsche]
"I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life – our desire to go on living … our dread of coming to an end." [Edison]
"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." [Lincoln]
"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]
"Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies." [Thomas Jefferson]
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile." [Kurt Vonnegut]
"Religion is based . . . Mainly on fear . . . Fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. . . . My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race." [Bertrand Russell]

Humanism stresses the value of human beings rather than a divine being and bases its beliefs on critical thinking rather than faith.

seafarersd 5 Feb 27
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Good quotes, I've always thought fear played a major role in humans creating religion just to explain why the world was such a scary place to them. Another human came alone and figured he could control these ignorant fools and get rich off them. da ta lol

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Agreed. And as humans we seem to be caught up in duality....always either/or.....I like AND.

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Mine: I wasn’t born with the blemish of original sin, I’m not guilty of a fabricated crime committed by a fictitious couple in an imaginary garden. I don’t need to have faith in a mythological god or adhere to narrow minded religious beliefs. I live my life with dignity and freedom unshackled by the claims of faith, religion and superstition

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Man, I was just about to say that.

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Ah the first example is from the Ancient Greek Philosopher Epicurus for those who are curious 🙂.

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