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EA Miller EA Miller “Religion is a mental institution where each patient claims their God is the warden.”

-Jackson Black
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EA Miller EA Miller Let’s get one thing straight evangelicals. When you are constantly whining about “religious freedom”, you are ONLY talking about Christianity and no other religion. In all honestly, you could care less about other religions and wish to insert you beliefs (forcefully if necessary) into every aspect of society.
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EA Miller EA Miller Male religious leaders have always feared intelligent woman because they have the power to dismantle their barbaric, antiquated men's club.
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EA Miller EA Miller “Ungodly counsel has destroyed many households.”

-Charles Stanley (mega-church pastor)

In other words, don’t trust highly trained, highly educated secular psychologists and psychiatrists who can actually help you. “Do no harm” apparently does not apply to pastors!
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EA Miller EA Miller Do you know what would be much more beneficial to your health and well being than praying for a half hour before bedtime? Sleeping for an extra half hour every night!
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis)
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 QUESTION: Is there any religion around today that's still prepared to make human sacrifices in order to preserve its integrity?

Well, APART from Islam.
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EA Miller EA Miller Theist: “I have serious doubts, is it time for me to leave religion behind?”

Me: “Yes, escape the cult and think for yourself for perhaps the very first time!”
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis)
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 The universe is about ten billion years older than our planet and about fourteen billion years older than Mankind.

What was god doing between creating the universe and then creating Mankind? Twiddling his thumbs?
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Pat Simons Pat Simons When people tell you belief in god is required to be good, remind them that this massively screwed up world is largely the product of people whose minds were, and are, filled with supernatural nonsense.
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EA Miller EA Miller
“In Jesus I continue to grow every day.”

-Andrew Wommack (televangelist)

If you have given your life over to barbaric, antiquated myth, you are regressing rather than growing.
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EA Miller EA Miller As an atheist I've seen religion as two different things the majority my life, ridiculous and dangerous.
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EA Miller EA Miller Religion:

Limiting human potential for thousands of years
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EA Miller EA Miller The only way to keep churches, mosques, and synagogues full is by early indoctrination and perpetuated ignorance.
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Pat Simons Pat Simons Human beings are just another species of ape with upgraded, but bug ridden, software.
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EA Miller EA Miller "You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates the same people you do."

-Annie Lamott
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EA Miller EA Miller If you need the threat of eternal torture in order to be a good person, you're NOT a good person!
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EA Miller EA Miller Why Atheism?

Because imaginary friends are best left in the minds of children and schizophrenics
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EA Miller EA Miller Effectiveness of prayer? I wonder how many millions of people out there bought a lottery ticket and prayed to win the ‘big’ jackpot.
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Pat Simons Pat Simons Religion is the mortal enemy of human freedom.
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EA Miller EA Miller Why would a god create physical beings (who use their senses to navigate the world) and not provide any physical evidence whatsoever of its own existence?
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EA Miller EA Miller Why is it that an all mighty god who can supposedly zap trillions of stars into existence in an instant unable to feed everyone on planet Earth?
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EA Miller EA Miller One does not have to be indoctrinated to believe in science.
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EA Miller EA Miller “As an atheist, I have a personal relationship with reality and common sense. I’m committed to the truth and challenging false beliefs. I answer only to myself, not some man in the sky.”

-GN Boston
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EA Miller EA Miller Think outside of the box (the Bronze Age, magic god in the sky, fairy-tale book). You'll be so much better off and expand your horizons exponentially!
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EA Miller EA Miller Morality from the Bible? Think again:

Numbers 31:17-18 (KJV)

"Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."
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EA Miller EA Miller Stating that a misogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic, self-aggrandizing, petty, extremely violent "god is love" is much like claiming that shards of glass are candy.
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EA Miller EA Miller If people actually “walked by faith and not by sight” as many pastors say repeatedly, not a single scientific discovery would have ever been made.
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EA Miller EA Miller “We need more science books, and fewer bibles. Science provides knowledge, and knowledge is power. There is no knowledge to be found in a book that features a talking snake, magical fruit, and a seven-headed dragon.”

-GN Boston
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EA Miller EA Miller At this point in my life, I honestly believe that it would be easier to come up with a cure for Parkinson's disease than to free a religious person from a deeply entrenched indoctrination.
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Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis) Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis)
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 Religion is Mankind's worst invention. And that's including the atom bomb and peanut butter.
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EA Miller EA Miller God moves in "mysterious" ways. Science moves in rational, data-driven ways.
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EA Miller EA Miller Catholicism:

When men wearing gowns, incessant standing and kneeling, magic holy water, and believing that you’re eating the actual body and drinking the actual blood of your savior seems perfectly normal to you!

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EA Miller EA Miller The “infallible” word of god in the Bible has David killing Goliath twice! Oopsie!

So David prevailed over the Philistine [Goliath] with a sling and a stone, striking down the Philistine and killing him; there was no sword in David’s hand. [1 Samuel 17:50 (NRSV)]

Then David ran and stood over the Philistine; he grasped his sword, drew it out of its sheath, and killed him; then he cut off his head with it. [1 Samuel 17:51 (NRSV)]

(Apparently he's alleged to have grabbed GOLIATH'S sword and finished him off with that. It's still bullshit whichever way one reads it.) Ed.
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EA Miller EA Miller A holy book open to multiple interpretations should never be used as a moral guide (e.g., The Bible was once used to justify slavery for the South during the United States Civil War.)
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EA Miller EA Miller Why doesn’t “god’s perfect plan” seem to be working for most of the planet?
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EA Miller EA Miller No individual should be able to claim any part of the Bible as truth unless they are able to produce indisputable evidence that can be rigorously tested through the most advanced scientific methods of the day. Surprising no one who is rational minded, not a single person has succeeded in this endeavor.
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ed m ed m When we were young our parents encouraged us to use our imagination. We had Grimm's fairy tales and Mother Goose nursery rhymes. We had Easter eggs (from the Easter bunny!), the tooth fairy, witches riding high on Halloween, storks to deliver us, Santa to deliver us presents on Christmas etc. etc. Slowly we realized that all were make believe and we relinquished the magical spell cast upon us by leprechauns and elves. All save one, that of god. But a lie is a lie regardless of the comfort derived from perpetuating a belief in it.
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EA Miller EA Miller Prayers are not answered for one main reason. There is NOTHING out there to answer them.
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Dr. Idel Dreimer Dr. Idel Dreimer The choice is clear: to live with the uncomfortable truth -- that the universe is a great mystery whose origin and secrets we may never fully understand -- or to subscribe to a comforting lie -- that the universe was created solely for our benefit by a species-obsessed deity whose thoughts on every conceivable subject have been -- and continue to be -- accurately divined by self-proclaimed human intermediaries. It's a choice between reasonable calm -- pursuing the truth by sticking to the evidence -- and pathetic bluster -- the manufacturing of an unreasonable conclusion. (Observation # 1295)
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EA Miller EA Miller Religion:

When the pilot light in your head goes out!
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Daniel Langdon Daniel Langdon Live your life as if it is the only one you will have. In all probability, it is.
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EA Miller EA Miller "What's the difference between science and religion?"

"Science gives and religion receives."

-Michael A. Sherlock
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EA Miller EA Miller Christians fear being exposed by science and often flee from any discussion of it in trying to defend their faith. They seem equally bothered by contemporary history since there is absolutely none that corroborates the biblical stories in the bible. This is especially curious because both the Romans and Egyptians were meticulous about keeping records.
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EA Miller EA Miller Seemingly endless conflicts and wars (since the creation of religion) have been fought in the name of whatever gods were popular at the time. Yet not a single battle during these thousands of years has ever been fought in the name of atheism.
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EA Miller EA Miller If god actually existed...

He would simultaneously appear on every form of multimedia (e.g., smart phones, tablets, home PCs, televisions) in the world and speak the clearest native dialogue he possibly could to make sure his message was not misinterpreted.
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EA Miller EA Miller Religion:

When sanity and reality just don't matter anymore!
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EA Miller EA Miller I have heard televangelist after televangelist persuading their followers that it is “the will of god” that they give 10% of their income to the church. Why would an almighty, magical god who could think anything it desired into existence have need for money? What on Earth would it use it for?
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EA Miller EA Miller Why would any woman choose Christianity?

1 Timothy 2:11-12 New International Version (NIV)

11. A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.
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Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens “To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
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Dave Barry People who want to share their religious views with you, almost never want you to share yours with them.
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EA Miller EA Miller According to the Bible, God created the ultimate bad guy, the Devil. Does anyone else understand the conflict of calling God the "good guy" here?
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EA Miller EA Miller I will never embrace the ignorance and bigoted hatred that is religion.
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Pat Simons Pat Simons One of theism's core components is the effort to convince people they cannot make their own decisions.
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Pat Simons Pat Simons If the evangelicals stopped expecting the world to defer to their religiosity, they wouldn't feel so persecuted.
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Jesse Jesse Jesse Jesse A penis is like religion. It’s nice to have, very convenient and has multiple uses. You may even be proud of it. But like religion it should never be whipped out and publicly displayed. And it should never be shoved down our children’s throats.
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Pat Simons Pat Simons There is something a little pathetic about people who need supernatural justification to behave like decent human beings.
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EA Miller EA Miller Religious folk can keep their “faith”. I much prefer reality.
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EA Miller EA Miller If you "live by the word" of the Abrahamic god, be sure to always have a large pile of stones handy!
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Pat Simons Pat Simons After every great tragedy comes the question, 'Where was God?' Where indeed.
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EA Miller EA Miller Remember that speech in the Bible where Jesus wholeheartedly spoke out against human slavery? Neither do I, and don't even get me started on a "all loving" father who drowns everyone on Earth except for a floating zoo! The Bible does not teach morality, but just the opposite I fear.
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