Quotes

"Man's life on Earth? Boats rowed out at dawn and no trace left."

~ MANSE

"Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse."

~ JAPANESE PROVERB

"The patriarchal nature of traditional evangelical marriage may contribute to high levels of violence and instability, and conservative religious values do not appear to suppress uses of pornography to levels as low as those with more liberal views."

~ GREGORY PAUL

"The whole problem with ultra-sophisticated religionists is that their beliefs are evidence free and thus content free, which is why theology is so flexible, able to accommodate anything."

~ MANO SINGHAM

"Debating a religionist is like playing tennis with someone who lowers the net for their shots and raises it for yours."

~ DANIEL C. DENNETT

"Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid."

~ SATOSHI KANAZAWA

"A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe."

~ CARL SAGAN

"God loves you. But there sure are a lot of others he just can't stand."

~ CLAY FARRIS

"Religion evolved as a human trait that conferred advantage on groups by increasing solidarity in the competition against other groups."

~ CLAY FARRIS

"Another argument, against the existence of god of course, is the problem of evil: All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital -- and you know there is no god. Children are in pain, they are suffering, their parents are desperately praying for god to protect them."

~ DAN BARKER

"Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to them ridiculous. Many persons have regarded it with indifference, because they have never felt its true disadvantages. But it is as a citizen that I attack [religion], because it seems to me harmful to the happiness of the state, hostile to the march of the mind of man, and contrary to sound morality, from which the interests of state policy can never be separated."

~ BARON D'HOLBACH

"The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion."

~ JOHN STUART MILL

"All thinking men are atheists."

~ ERNEST HEMINGWAY

"Always beware of someone who is a really good listener."

~ SIR TERRY PRATCHETT

"Any physical system has subjective experience to the extent that it is capable of integrating information, irrespective of what it is made of."

~ GIULIO TONONI