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I have been a quote collector and quote monger for at least as long as I have been an atheist, and likely much longer. There is a fascination in me of those who are sufficiently skilled in language that they structure words into concepts and ideas and proposed actions which grab my attention and interest, whether it is John F. Kennedy's unabashed statement: "We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard," Robert A. Heinlein's blunt expression: "If you've got the truth, you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. SHOW people," or Captain Kirk's subtle yet important tactical observation, having encountered and been challenged by the dauntingly huge First Federation vessel: "Not chess, Mr. Spock ... Poker!"
Certainly, atheism has had its share of skilled spokespeople, whose words have inspired and driven us, whether it was Madalyn Murray O'Hair, saying: "An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church," or Sam Harris, who noted that: "The only problem with Islamic fundamentalism are the fundamentals of Islam," or Aron Ra's far more succinct: "If you can't SHOW it, you don't KNOW it."
Consciously or unconsciously, I suspect all of us have learned and grown from such words and many others, becoming stronger and more mature, not just in our atheism but in ourselves, having heard such words as these, and that is the point of this group: not to just deal in quotes which praise and promote atheism but which advance the cause of knowledge, self-understanding and self-ownership. Each of us have likely heard someone say something and think, "Wow!" and resonated to the significance of what they heard.
That's what I want to do here: share, learn, and grow, not just from THEIR words, but our own.
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A Quote of the Day from Loren Miller dated November 14, 2009
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Comment was by Loren Miller on January 19, 2022 at 6:47am
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I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.
-- Emma Goldman
And after all that time, we're still working at it, slow but sure.
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"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." Friedrich Wilhelm Freud.
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick
And yet we have people who are more than willing to beset others with their own "reality" or "alternative facts" at every turn. At times, I wonder how they manage to continue to function in the reality that we all know.
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Yup....hahahaha.....
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Yeah, I know all about the kitties and worship thing (I gots FIVE of 'em!), but it's yet to truly get out of hand here. I DO love 'em all, and I wouldn't be without 'em.
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Uuummmm.....I have kitties.....any questions?
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Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods.
-- Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
With all due respect, Terry ... BULLSHIT. There are people I admire, those whose words and opinions I find particularly insightful or pithy, and those I enjoy learning from, but I Don't Worship ANY Of Them. From where I sit, there are NO gods, Terry.
Not a one.
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Comment was by Stephen Brodie on January 16, 2022 at 4:06pm
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The Church of England is the Tory Party at prayer.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I still say it all belongs in the places of worship, NOT schools, the workplace, hospitals, government buildings.....
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Terry, several years ago, Seth Andrews of The Thinking Atheist gave a talk entitled, "Get Them While They're Young." He isn't the only one to observe that religions want to indoctrinate children before they have the means to understand what's being shoved down their throats, but considering his own personal experience and what he went through with his theologian parents, I find his take on the subject particularly worthy of consideration.
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