What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.
The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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