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The more I contemplate the unimaginable vastness and complexity of the universe, the more absurd man's puny little religions become.		21
Humans are conditioned to believe they need religion, because it's something that saves the clergy from having to seek honest work.		21
We humans are hard wired to try and make sense of our surroundings. It's part of our survival strategy as a species. Unfortunately, when we don't have good explanations for things we tend to start making things up. Then comes religion followed by orthodoxy, and that's where we get in trouble.		21
If there was some definitive argument demonstrating the existence of god, we would be hearing that argument from every theologian on the planet. As it stands, we have approximately as many arguments for god's existence as we do theologians.		21
Of all the many sins religions would punish, none is more grievous than free and independent thinking.		21
My challenge to all the world's theologians is this; For the sake of humanity, get your story straight! Until you can get everyone on the same page, and provide some testable evidence for your claims, you need to butt out of human affairs. Come back when you've reached agreement, and not a minute sooner.		21
Humanity is not the result of any divine plan, we are what happened. The universe was not made just for us.		20
Ignorance, fear, and superstition are the life blood of religion.		20
Any church that requires the indoctrination of children to survive, doesn't have very powerful arguments supporting it.		20
When science denial is seen as a virtue, religious idiocy is sure to follow.		20
Imagine a world where your eternal salvation depended upon your understanding of quantum mechanics. Sophisticated theology is no easier to understand and unlike science, puts forward no testable evidence or consistent argument.		20
Few things divide people as effectively and pointlessly as does religion.		20
Of all the ways a person can spend their time, few things make less sense than attending church.		20
All the prayers that were ever prayed, to all the gods that were ever made, did not a single rainbow make.		20
Science requires neither apologetics nor apologists, so why does religion? A divine being who can will the universe into existence, but can't make itself understood? Seriously?		20
Why is it that one of the first thing a man does after getting religion, is claim a right to control women's bodies?		20
Few people are more frightening and dangerous, than those who know they're right, beyond question, in matters of religion.		20
Truth never requires faith.		20
Scientists do not debate young earth creationists for the same reasons professors of literature do not debate illiterates.		20
Never underestimate the lunacy of true believers.		20
One may decide what to believe, but no one gets to decide what's true. Truth is that which stands up to any degree of questioning. No religion meets this test, and I know of no religion that encourages its followers to question its teachings.		20
Few things show intellectual weakness quite like the constant assertion of religious faith.		20
As an atheist, I'm not opposed to all religions, only those that involve people.		20
Religion is the first refuge of the intellectually lazy.		20
Had humanity continued to only put its faith in faith, the steam engine would be a distant dream.		20
Few things afflict the human species more adversely than does absolute certainty regarding the supernatural.		20
The effects on the human mind of getting involved with organized religion, is not unlike drinking downstream from the herd.		20
If something is true, you can question it all you want and it will be the thing you keep coming back to. Religion is not known for encouraging people to question their teachings.		20
We humans are hard wired to try and make sense of our surroundings. It's part of our survival strategy as a species. Unfortunately, when we don't have good explanations for things we tend to start making things up. Then comes religion, followed by orthodoxy, and that's where we get in trouble.		20
Look at many of the world's trouble spots, from India-Pakistan, to Northern Ireland, to the Balkans, to the never ending horror story that is the Middle East. Remove religion from the equation.....and suddenly, people would have a whole lot less to fight about.		20
Theists never have any difficulty spotting the flaws in other people's religion. What they have trouble with is realizing that their own beliefs aren't based on any more than the other guy's.		20
Science does not put forward ideas that carry with them the threat of eternal damnation if people reject them.		20
Believers never seem to be even vaguely aware that the burden of proof rests entirely on them, and it is not up to the skeptic to disprove their untestable ideas.		20
Where there is the expectation of privilege, equality will be seen as persecution. This is why evangelicals cry 'persecution' when ever they are prevented from forcing their beliefs on others.		20
One of the surest ways to gain the enmity of the evangelical preachers, is to live a life of compassion, tolerance and empathy, the way Jesus taught.		19
If we are made in the image of god, why aren't we invisible?		19
What is the point of having riches if you cannot also make the poor suffer? -- Jesus . . . Twenty-first century, blue-eyed blond, open carry, stand your ground, trickle-down, mega-church, God wants you to be rich, Jesus. /s		19
The moderators of this site need to stop contributors from spamming. Limit the comments to one a week.		19
When I look at the multitude of often contradictory things the human race believes in, and view the passion people have for beliefs supported by little more than the desire for them to be true, I am not filled with hope for the future of our species.		19
It has always seemed to me that blind faith is the worst possible way to repay the gift of reason.		19
Say what you will about atheists, but at least we don't kill one another over what we think happens after we're dead. That's a theist thing.		19
If religion equals morality, then the Middle East should be the safest, sanest, happiest place on earth, and not the never-ending horror story it is.		19
How can an all powerful god 'want' anything, and still be all powerful? By the same token, if I can anger god, then haven't I exercised power over god? I would submit that the idea of an all powerful god is a concept that collapses in on itself upon examination. God just winds up as an imaginary friend who hates the same people you hate.		19
What kind of god subjects his creation to horrific tests of character he knows the outcome of in advance?		19
Institutions that depend on the indoctrination of children to survive, are openly acknowledging the weakness of their ideas.		19
If there was such a thing as doctrinal truth, there wouldn't be over 30,000 christian denominations.		19
You rarely, if ever, hear conservative christians demanding government address healthcare, housing, and education. Most often they are urging government to target and strip rights from a minority, like gay people, who offend their cherished christian principles.		19
No god ever fed a hungry child.		19
The entirety of the human experience, from the time our puny ancestors descended from the trees and began walking upright, to the present day, constitutes less than an eye blink on the time scale of the universe. It takes a towering conceit to say it's all the doing of a god born of mythology from the infancy of civilization. Mythology written by people who didn't know where the sun went at night.		19
There is no King James version of the Constitution.		18

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