Thread: Post (anti) Religious quotes here

Humm...making it personal again, eh Xei?
You are a mod, right?

I'm starting to believe you honestly have no clue how mean you are.
What a dickhead ...lol

"Atheists are amoral and lawless" - all fine.

"No they aren't, and you've been shown this before" - insulting and personal.



Keep up the objectivity.

Originally Posted by greenhavoc

You are a mod, right?

Nope, she's a reject.

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
~ Francis Bacon

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without
persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
~ C C Colton

''Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions''

and i think the next one is pretty funny IMO

''People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs''

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without
persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
~ C C Colton

LOL, that's the best one yet .

Religion certainly isn't about wealth or power.

Love this one, needs to be re-quoted.

Originally Posted by Solarflare

''People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs''

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

Love this one, needs to be re-quoted.

well, thats an atheism quote, but i guess a theist could like that quote, because for theists, the same could be said for atheism

lol

LOL, very true indeed.

Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

Creationists make it sound like a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Creator - A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum -- the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.

Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

The curse of man, and cause of nearly all of his woes, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes -- that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere effects -- this notion has no support in the plain facts. If it could, science would explain the origin of life on earth at once -- and there is every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow. To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking. Not by accident does Genesis 3 make the father of knowledge a serpent -- slimy, sneaking and abominable. Since the earliest days the church, as an organization, has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was the apologist for the divine right of kings.

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it?

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Archbishop: A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus rose from the dead or he didn't. If he did, then Christianity becomes plausible; if he did not, then it is sheer nonsense. I defy any genuine scientist to say that he believes in the Resurrection, or indeed in any other cardinal dogma of the Christian system.

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration -- courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous.... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.

Also, Mencken sums up all of Ne-yo's posts ever: God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

Originally Posted by Ne-yo

Nope, she's a reject

She!?
Dang Xei, I thought you were a guy.
Sorry bout the dickhead comment, I feel like such an ass.

This should be funny.

“I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in” - Dan Fouts

"God was never created." - Ne-yo

"Primates often have trouble imagining a universe not run by an angry alpha male"

''Morals come from within. You dont read a book then go 'i can haz morals' ''

me on some other thread

my bad i said it wrong :/

''Morals come from within, you dont get them by reading a book, then automatically saying, ohhh, I can haz morals.''-Solarflare

A few quotes from the Bible. Enjoy Theists and Atheists alike.

The LORD is a jealous God, filled with vengeance and wrath. He takes revenge on all who oppose him and furiously destroys his enemies! The LORD is slow to get angry, but his power is great, and he never lets the guilty go unpunished. He displays his power in the whirlwind and the storm. The billowing clouds are the dust beneath his feet. At his command the oceans and rivers dry up, the lush pastures of Bashan and Carmel fade, and the green forests of Lebanon wilt. In his presence the mountains quake, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles, and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before his fierce anger? Who can survive his burning fury? His rage blazes forth like fire, and the mountains crumble to dust in his presence. The LORD is good. When trouble comes, he is a strong refuge. And he knows everyone who trusts in him. But he sweeps away his enemies in an overwhelming flood. He pursues his foes into the darkness of night. (Nahum 1:2-8 NLT)

"You Ethiopians will also be slaughtered by my sword," says the LORD. And the LORD will strike the lands of the north with his fist. He will destroy Assyria and make its great capital, Nineveh, a desolate wasteland, parched like a desert. The city that once was so proud will become a pasture for sheep and cattle. All sorts of wild animals will settle there. Owls of many kinds will live among the ruins of its palaces, hooting from the gaping windows. Rubble will block all the doorways, and the cedar paneling will lie open to the wind and weather. This is the fate of that boisterous city, once so secure. "In all the world there is no city as great as I," it boasted. But now, look how it has become an utter ruin, a place where animals live! Everyone passing that way will laugh in derision or shake a defiant fist. (Zephaniah 2:12-15 NLT)

Meanwhile, the LORD instructed one of the group of prophets to say to another man, "Strike me!" But the man refused to strike the prophet. Then the prophet told him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, a lion will kill you as soon as you leave me." And sure enough, when he had gone, a lion attacked and killed him. (1 Kings 20:35-36 NLT)

"Life with a God is a Life with a Tyrant."

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.
Francis Bacon

I don't believe in God, but I'm very interested in Her.
Arthur C. Clarke

Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.
Arthur C. Clarke

I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.
Albert Einstein

"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed." - Augustine

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." Thomas Aquinas

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist there is no God." - Heywood Broun

"What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs--beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people's bones and all sorts of impurity. Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness." -Jesus

C'mon, all you are doing is posing quotes that go

'AGG RELIGION IS STUPID'

or

'AGG ATHEISM IS STUPID'

can we find some.... good quotes now?


Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.- Buddha

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.- Buddha

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.- Buddha

A jug fills drop by drop.- Buddha

Hinduism and Buddhism offer much more sophisticated worldviews (or philosophies) and I see nothing wrong with these religions.- Richard Dawkins

Jung on Religion:

"All esoteric teachings seek to apprehend the unseen happenings in the psyche, and all claim supreme authority for themselves. What is true of primitive lore is true in even higher degree of the ruling world religions. They contain a revealed knowledge that was originally hidden, and they set forth the secrets of the soul in glorious images"

And on Holy Communion:

"Slowly I came to understand that this communion had been a fatal experience for me. It had proved hollow; more than that, it had proved to be a total loss. I knew that I would never again be able to participate in this ceremony. "Why, that is not religion at all," I thought. "It is the absence of God; the church is a place I should not go to. It is not life which is there, but death."

And on the role of psychoanalysis from a letter to Freud:

"I imagine a far finer and more comprehensive task for [psychoanalysis] than alliance with an ethical fraternity. I think we must give it time to infiltrate into people from many centers, to revivify among intellectuals a feeling for symbol and myth, ever so gently to transform Christ back into the soothsaying god of the vine, which he was, and in this way absorb those ecstatic instinctual forces of Christianity for the one purpose of making the cult and the sacred myth what they once were - a drunken feast of joy where man regained the ethos and holiness of an animal."

I love me some Thomas Aquinas quotes. He's my favorite Agnostically-Christian Christian Agnostic.

"Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not. "

"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches. "

"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. "

You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions. - Adlin Sinclair