Deep Thoughts

 

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, political activist, philosopher, political theorist.

 

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)

Professor of biochemistry at Boston University and science fiction writer having written or edited more than 500 books.

 

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, Cornell professor, and science communicator

 

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.

Steven Weinberg (1933-2021)

theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate

 

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

American-British author, journalist and polemicist

 

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

George Carlin (1937-2008)

Comedian, social and political critic

 

We are all atheists in regard to any religion that differs from ours.

Sam Harris, PhD

Author, neuroscientist, philosopher

 

I can prove there is no God in just two words: CHILDHOOD CANCER

Bert R.

Yours Truly

 

I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist

 

The lack of belief among Believers is what non-believers find so unbelievable.

Billy Graham (1918-2018)

Evangelical Christian leader, anti-semite

 

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire (1694-1778)

French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher

 

Calling atheism a religion is like calling baldness a hair style.

Bert R.

Yours Truly

 

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher (and Catholic)

 

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 (341-270 BC)

ancient Greek philosopher and sage

 

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist

 

Those who pray remember only the occasional hit and none of the many misses.

Bert R.

Yours Truly

 

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.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

British Prime Minister, Conservative politician, novelist

 

You keep believing, I'll keep evolving.

Bumper Sticker

 

Freedom OF religion should also mean freedom FROM religion.

Bert R.

Yours Truly

 

Jews, Muslims, and Christians claim that their holy books are so profound, and so prescient of humanity’s needs, that they could only have been written at the direction of an omniscient deity. An atheist is simply someone who has considered the claim, read the books, and found the claim to be ridiculous.

Sam Harris, PhD

Author, neuroscientist, philosopher

 

I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, Founding Father, third POTUS

 

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

American-British author, journalist and polemicist

 

If there was a God...I would hate him for having created the malaria mosquito which kills 725,000 of my fellow humans each year.

Bert R.

Yours Truly

 

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

Prof. Richard Dawkins

British evolutionary biologist, author, lecturer

 

… it is a strange sort of loving God who would make salvation depend upon a person’s ability to believe in him on bad evidence.

Sam Harris, PhD

Author, neuroscientist, philosopher

 

The religion you are and therefore the beliefs you adopt are more an accident of geography than anything.

Bert R.

Yours Truly

 

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer

 

The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion, but doubt. Doubt is humble, and that's what man needs to be, considering that human history is just a litany of getting shit dead wrong.

Bill Maher

comedian, HBO political talk show host

 

Some people claim to have a personal relationship with God. I prefer a personal relationship with Reality.

Bert R.

Yours Truly

 

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Victor J. Stenger (1935-2014)

American particle physicist, philosopher, author, and religious skeptic.

 

An unexamined faith is not worth having.

D.B. Ramsey

Former Baptist minister, author

 

While theologians obfuscate, scientists illuminate.

Peter William Atkins, PhD

English Professor Emeritus of Chemistry University of Oxford (retired)

 

If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a Supreme Being.

Spock

Commander, USS Enterprise

 

There are at least a billion people on earth at this moment who would consider their prayers answered if they could trade places with you.

Sam Harris, PhD

Author, neuroscientist, philosopher