On 2004-11-09 08:08:00, Admiral Nelson wrote:
peole just have a bad orientation to God.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, U.S. President
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The inspiration of the Bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it.
--Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and lecturer
Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
--Ambrose Bierce
Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.
--Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President, author, scientist, architect, educator, and diplomat
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
-Francois Marie Arouet "Voltaire", French author and playwright
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
-Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American author
Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.
-Dan Barker, author and former evangelist
[Religion is] the daughter of hope and fear, explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable.
-Ambrose Bierce
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, author