Diane Fadden

top atheist quotes (total: 34)

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Prayer is what people do to feel better about not lifting a finger to actually do something helpful or useful.		11
In the beginning there was a lot of scary things going on that man didn't know. So man said, "let there be God," and it was so.		11
Don't insult my intelligence by talking about God's unconditional love in one breath and how I am going to Hell in the next. ~ Bob Peters (found this posted on Facebook)		8
If God created humans from the dust, why is there still dust?"		6
Blind belief in a myth, does not make it real.		1 8
The biggest flaw I see and reason I can't believe in or follow the Christian god; this god freely admits to knowingly creating the existence of evil, thereby giving himself a standard of comparison in order to seem good.		5
In the Beginning, there were gods. Gods of the sky, gods of the mountain, gods of fire, gods of water, and man said "it is good." He went about his ceaseless work of placating this god and that, offering sacrifice, the best that he had. Until one day man said, "what a bother this is--this is too much work!" And then one day man realized a way to prosper, to be received and fed at various houses--to never have to work again. So he met with his powerful friends and they conspired. They added to a book of myths one borrowed Mithras story, and then they said, "there is only one god, and he is the only way, and for him and in his name you must give sacrifice to WE who speak in his stead, all the best of your crops, the smallest coin you might still have. And then these fine men, grown fat on another's labor, looked around and they said, "it is good!"		5
One doesn't need an imaginary friend to have a purpose or meaning in life. Life has whatever purpose you wish for it.		5
So god looks at his sons gathered around him; Mithra, Attis, Krishna, Horus, Jesus, then says,"ok, who wants to go first?"		5
Until you can produce some shred of evidence to show a god truly exists, it is as absurd for you to talk to me about him as if he does, as it would be for me to tell you about the feeding habits of the unicorn I keep in my back yard.		2 9
When I find myself marveling at a fiery sunset, or a cloud formation across blue sky, or reflections of the skyline on a clear glacier lake, I reflect at the beauty and majesty of the natural world, and the feeling that gives me is wonderful, just the awareness I am a part of nature. To take that feeling and then...try to imagine that the bloodthirsty tyrant god described in the bible is somehow behind it all...is to deminish my experience completely.		4
If belief in your god serves as a safety net below the tight-rope of life, just in case your religion is true, I'd much rather live without it, thank you very much, and live my life like it's the only life I get to have.		4
If there's a god and we are all made in his image and everything is according to his divine plan, which is perfect good, that includes gay people, created to live and breathe on this earth too. What amazes me is all the followers of god who strive against him because of one or two verses in a book of questionable (and often highly suspicious) authorship.		4
Normally I try to be of the attitude "Live and let live." But when I hear of people right here in modern times STILL trying to dictate what rights women should and should not have...based on their personal ethics rising from their interpretation of a book I don't agree with...that's when I take a stand for what America was created for, and not what some book was created for.		4
Two chimps in a cage. One, forlorn, stares down at the white plastic band around his wrist and feels with his other hand the wires coming out of his head. The other ape, seeing his broken expression, reaches out a hand and pats his new friend's shoulder. "I know it's hard," he says. "But sometimes God TESTS us!"		4
Then at last comes the time to draw straws. God looks at Santa. "Ok, you first. Shortest straw, has to deal with the kids!"		4
If we hadn't been deliberately made flawed to begin with, then there would not be sin or a reason for hell or saviors.		3
Why is it that, without exception, whenever a religion is trying to take the helm of any government, THE first order of business is always to take away from women their hard-won, hard fought for, basic human rights?		3
As for not putting our names with our quotes because quotes from greater people are already posted here...what do you suppose made those people great? Two things. They didn't follow the herd blindly and without question, trusting as little children or a sheep would, and as Jesus teaches in the bible people should. And two, they spoke out. They fought for separation of church and state and the exact kind of religious persecution we are seeing alive and well (unfortunately) still today, the kind of superstitious, primitive thinking that we should have snuffed out decades ago.		3
If god knows everything then he made us flawed knowing he was making us flawed...so he did it on purpose..then punished us for being flawed creations...then sent Jesus to make it all better again. Wouldn't it have just been easier to make us right in the first place? Or better yet...just skip the part when god makes Satan?		3
How come "spreading the good news" is good, positive and admirable but listing the reasons why i think it isn't true, is bad? If it is what you genuinely think is true, don't you want to tell someone? Isn't it arrogant of me to say what I think must be true...implying what you think isn't? Then why is it ok and good and admirable for the religious to do this to non-believers? Why is one called witnessing and the other "hating god?"		3
Two bums on a railroad track, one with no legs, the other, a Christian. The train is coming--roaring down upon them. One drops to his knees to pray--the other throws himself from his wheelchair and starts struggling with his arms to get off the tracks. Never fear, atheists. Survival of the fittest. Natural selection. One day (I like to hope) they'll be extinct.		3
So Satan says to God, "hey, betcha I can make your pious Job SCREAM as I utter destroy him!" Then God says, "OK, you're ON!" then sits back to watch.		3
I look at you, you look at me. What in each other, do we see? I see friend, a happy face, Good companion there in place. You however, see a page, Inviting and yours to rearrange, As if I’m just territory for you claim, Empty dirt and weeds to tame. A place to sow seeds of blinded faith Atop the bounty reason made, In hopes the one will kill and smother, Replacing me with someone other. -D. Fadden		1 5
The sad fact is, as long as patriarchal religion brainwashes the majority in America, women will be seen as little children who shouldn't really have human rights at all, but rather merely privileges reluctantly bestowed like a weekly allowance, after it's earned.		2
So God, with Satan watching with a smirk, proceeded to take everything from Job, his children, his land, his health, everything, until Job was a sobbing, tortured broken man lying in the dust... "Joseph!" scolded God's mommy right then. "BAD! What did I tell you about not teasing your pets?"		2
When someone is kind to me...when someone does a nice giving, self-serving thing for me without my asking them to, or even without my knowing about it, it is a beautiful gift. But if that same someone points out that good deed they did as something they can now hold over my head in order to wring from me my love or obedience or devotion to them, and if I don't give it I shall be harmed or even destroyed as punishment...then it's no longer a beautiful gift. It is blackmail.		1
By the way, Unknown (such a coward to not even give your name)...when you say god gave his ONLY son, which one do you mean? Let's see... Mithras? He came before Jesus, was crucified and rose again too for our sins. Attis? Horus? Krishna? Which one? So many I'm not listing too. All of them had millions of followers too. Were they all wrong? Or did SATAN make those older pagan faiths happen to confuse people when the REAL only son of god came along? The only difference between those followers and this most recent sun god's followers...they knew their god man was a myth. Only in Christianity do we see a religion trying to historicize its myths. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/mistic/songod_sungod.htm		1
Brutal reality can be too difficult/painful to take for some people; so comes the inventing of (or hope in) FICTION. --if there wasn't a "religion" section in bookstores, it's where the bible would be.		1
If I were a god, first thing I'd do...reveal myself so all the atheists would give me proper homage & shut the fuck up! But then again, maybe it's more fun, sending doubting children to everlasting suffering and hell!		1 3
I totally do not believe in the Christian notion of what heaven is, or that a supreme god would deliberately create Satan, create Hell, create humans flawed so they'd fuck up, then need God to fix it for them--forcing them to be his slaves on Earth in order to win salvation (heaven)--then sing & praise him to soothe his towering ego for all eternity.		1 3
Reason takes Jesus. Check-mate!		1
There's a thin line the ordinary human ego won't cross. He can think of himself as superior to all other life--that the universe was made just for him and revolves around him, that women were made only for his convenience, that the world is here only for him to use up, but he won't cross that line... he won't call himself god. Instead he places a blow up doll image of himself in the sky and calls himself made in its image.		2 2
Ever wonder WHY an all-knowing, future-seeing OMNISCIENT god would make in the first place, an angel that would fall?		0

top atheist quotes (total: 34)

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