Hurd Hutchins

top atheist quotes (total: 19)

atheist quote	context
Religion: the triumph of wishful thinking over the discouraging hard facts of life.		15
What is the antidote to faith? Proof.		12
Some advice: It's a waste of time debating ideologues--especially the religious kind. The only facts they recognize--no matter how fictitious--are the facts that support and sanctify their ideology. Thus the inevitable result: they're right and you're wrong no matter what the experts, the scientists, pollsters, the pundits, and even the gods themselves might say.		9
Religion provides a vital service to mankind--it keeps people from thinking and thereby getting into worse trouble. Ideology requires no deliberation.		8
Religions come and go, but reason will march on its wavering, precarious, on-again/off-again course to the end of human history.		8
America, where the new god is money. Finally a useful religion.--Peter Parker on Bill Maher blog under The Mass Delusion on youtube.		7
If there is a God, why did he give most of the oil to the Muslims?		7
Religion: an agreed-upon fable. A Religion: a group of people with a love of their own agreed-upon fable and a hatred of the competition's.		7
The only religion worth practicing is the religion you can create to your own specifications and collect the gate receipts for--just like the Vatican so profitably does.		7
Since we humans think we will eventually screw up our own civilization, we pray to the gods to be on the ready to ride to the rescue when needed.		6
Agnostic Motto: I don't know--neither do you. [If anyone on this site is pining for one.]		6
Evolution is fact--God is speculation. --not most Americans		6
There's a thousand compelling reasons to believe in God, but evidence fortunately isn't one of them.		5
People act more rationally choosing products to consume than ideas to believe [but not a hell of a lot more].		5
For the realist: I'll believe it when I see it. For the ideologue: First I must believe it, then I see--ahh! [Most notable example: Saul of Tarsus, aka St. Paul the Apostle, on the road to Damascus. Lesser notable examples: any of today's creationists, especially those who like to debate scientists on TV.]		5
The Christian faith: a belief in the supernaturally improbable verified by the [w]holy unprovable.		3
The authorities use religion most beneficially for crowd control. The masses for the compensation it provides for not being chosen one of the authorities.		3
Whatever you believe, mother nature (i.e. the laws of nature) is going to take care of you and your hereafter.		1
Religious war is fighting over who has the better invisible connection wherever it is.		1

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