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"At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?"
"One great way to mess with devout Christians and atheists would be if Jesus came back and said, By the way, you know I'm fake, right?"
"I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god. Why are you in such a hurry to make up your mind? Why not simply wait until there is compelling evidence?"
"If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science."
"In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches."
"An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence."
"If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy."
"At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion."
"I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue."
"We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion."
"Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech."
"It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind."
"Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules."
"In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust."
"It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends."
"Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery."
"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"
"My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race."
"What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it."
"Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree."
