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<br/>I wonder what kind of dog this is?<br/><em class='author'>Acid Krtiana</em>

I wonder what kind of dog this is?
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Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept. • Dan Barker, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists		331
Tug on the thread of the creation myth and the entire Bible unravels. So we really can't blame them if they get their knickers in a twist over evolution. - Enoch's Thread		330
The scientist accumulates vast amounts information in a lifelong quest for truth. With a single book the religious man feels complete.		328
Creationists would have no fundamental issue with the overall concept of evolution except for two points they feel obliged defend and preserve: One, they need the earth to be young: about ten thousand years old and two, they can't have man evolving from monkeys. Should they concede these points their entire book, you know, the Bible, falls and Genesis goes first. - Enoch's Thread		327
The guilt-fueled zeal of the steadfastly religious is the single best testimony to the staying power of early childhood indoctrination. - Ralph Metusi		1 329
no matter how important a deed might seem, if you believe you are doing it with a pure heart, and you are also doing it for the Lord, you are not doing it with a pure heart. - Ralph Metusi		246
Our explanations of the natural world are far more important than the nature of the world they describe. The Gods and religions we choose, the scientific hypotheses we test; their specifics are critical. Why? Because our beliefs define our ability to grow and change. Select them carefully my friend, because they are the door through which you encounter your destiny. Process is Product. - Enoch’s Thread		228
Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon; it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.		135
Science and Magic set out to define the universe. Religion meanwhile, wholly parasitic, prospers by fashioning the scraps and casts offs of both into a money making proposition. - Ralph Metusi		106
Errors and lies do not cease to be errors and lies because they appear in the Bible and are called the word of god. John Aubrey		104
Religion is like holding onto a rock in the middle of a raging river; atheism is learning how to swim.		1 92
Humanism is the purest expression of your soul as a human. It has no God to be concerned with, except for the living Gods, that is the humans. It has no doctrine to abide by, except for the natural doctrine of love and benevolence. That's the religion we need my friend. • Abhijit Naskar		58
Denying scientific fact as a matter of faith transforms it to a religious matter. It follows then, that Science has been elevated by the religious zealots to the Heavenly plane where it is free to compete on an equal footing with God. - Ralph Metusi		53
That’s the problem with indoctrination; the whole point of ....[religious] .... education is to stop someone from thinking and instead kick their emotions into gear. Make them hate everything else so they’ll cling to what you give them. It’s hard to think for yourself when fear and anger are driving the shuttle. • Delilah S. Dawson		43
We had awakened their lust, offering them a secret that couldn't have been emptier, because not only did we know it ourselves, but even better, we knew it was false. .....Foucault's Pendulum		43
A fervent lack of a belief in God is no more a religion than the fervent lack of belief in the holocaust is history.		1 45
The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence. • William Harwood,		42
Beware the man of one book. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas		40
We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. - Ernst Casirer		39
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. - Annie Besant		38
Calling Atheism "Religion" is like calling a deserted highway "traffic".		37
Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow, to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested . . . Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll. Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's		29
As the creators of reality at the frontiers of human knowledge, Science and the occult have become one. Religion can either become irrelevant by continuing to distance itself from Science and magic, as it always has done, or face the truth and pay homage to the one true God, the God of Science. - Ralph Metusi		29
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth... - H.P. Lovecraft		28
Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in his divine system of creation? - Joseph Heller		28
Each truth we discover in life takes us a step farther from God. - Ralph Metusi		27
.. in every religion there are two main elements, one of deception, and one of devotion....Tolstoy		25
The religious see information, opportunities, and resources as constraints; for the rationalist, they are bridges. - John Aubrey		24
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion. • Arthur C. Clarke		24
If we exterminate ourselves as a species, and vaporize our beautiful world, the universe will not cry with us (a condition called the pathetic fallacy). No gods will intervene. It will just happen, and then the universe will go on. We will not be remembered. We will simply not be. • Vjay Prozak		1 26
The foundational beliefs and assumptions of both the scientific method and religion are unchanging. From only one of them does an ever-perfected knowledge flow like clear water from a spring - Ralph Metusi		23
Religion is an unchanging anachronistic description of truth conceived in pre-history. The scientific method is an unchanging modern process continually revising the description of the universe in a quest for absolute truth. - John Aubrey		23
Believers are not dumb. They just have a command of thoroughly useless information (apologies to Bill Watterson)		21
The distinction between atheist and theist is not between right and wrong it is between sense and nonsense. - Ralph Metusi		20
No one comes back from the dead. Ghosts and demons? They are born of mortal man as just another form of communication. . . - Enoch's Thread		20
It's all a joke! Everything everybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! ” The Joker, The Killing Joke		20
Our lives are so brief and unimportant. The cosmos cares nothing for us. For what we've done; Had we wrought evil instead of good. Had I chosen to abuse the Apple instead of seal it away. None of it would have mattered. There is no counting. No reckoning. No final judgement. There is simply silence. And darkness. Utter and absolute... -Altair, Assassins creed		20
I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing. • John Fowles, The Collector		20
Religion is its own executioner		19
Religious thought mistakes itself for insight, whereas true insight understands religious thought is mistaken - John Aubrey		19
On the sixth day God made stupid people, and on the seventh they went to church. - Ralph Metusi		19
Should you plan on dining with a Catholic priest, be sure to bring a long spoon - John Aubrey		19
You ask me my religion? I am a metusi-ite. I believe in me. - Ralph Metusi		19
When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage. â€• Evelyn Waugh,		18
The real issue is not whether God exists or not, but where to take the argument once one decides that he evidently doesn't - Allain De Botton		18
Kill a man, you're a killer. Kill many, you're a conqueror. Kill them all, you're a god.		1 20
Crazy isn't a condition it's a place and it runs all the way from God to Oblivion - John Aubrey		17
Scientific discovery is the engine for, and mirror image of, the decline of religion - John Aubrey		17
Praise Allah for creating the prophets of atheisim with their good news of the Scientific Method. - John Aubrey		17
There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent. -Mao		17

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This strikes a chord with me, too. My conviction that I am right far exceeds the faith that any theist could ever achieve in their belief.

Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis)

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15/08/14
2:24pm

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disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct. I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true . . . • Charles Darwin,

This may be the perfect religious metaphor! (forgive me for commenting on my own post0

Enoch Author

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17/07/14
11:28am

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Theology does not thrive in the world of action and reaction, change: it grows on calm, like the scum on a stagnant pool. And it flourishes, it prospers, on decline. Only in a world where everything is patently being lost can a priest stir men's hearts as a poet would by maintaining that nothing is in vain. • John Gardner, Grendel

I agree fuck god.man that sucks. - Yelo man

Yelo man

11/06/14
3:19am

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It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! â€• George Gamow

Great quote!

carlton sumsion

22/12/13
8:25pm

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Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits. - Dan Barker

And me. Though I always look upon agnostics as fence sitters.

Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis)

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09/11/13
12:44pm

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â€œThe mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.â€
â€• Charles Darwin

CLOSE ENOUGH FOR ME!!!!

It's a pity more people can't see it like this. Each and every one of us is the most important thing in our lives. Without SELF nothing at all matters. You may wish to do good and put others' first, but to do that you first of all need to exist.

Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis)

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10/08/13
8:25am

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You ask me my religion? I am a metusi-ite. I believe in me. - Ralph Metusi

And I'd hazzard a guess that poor old George would've been hounded to his grave for saying such stuff. I bet he'd loved to have had a site like this to sound off on.

Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis)

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15/06/13
8:55am

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Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teachings, and most of these teachings have been true; but religion has murdered millions for doubting or denying her dogmas, and most of these dogmas have been false.
George P. Spencer of Lyndon Center, Vt., died in 1908 at age 83.

If you do have to walk with a religious man, keep to the side away from the traffic.

Anthony W. Allsop (Genesis)

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02/03/13
9:52pm

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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. • Friedrich Nietzsche

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