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A place to post favorite quotes about atheism and other significant topics
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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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One suggestion for the main comment area of the group: Please keep your quotes to under 20 lines or 200 words. That way, one entry won't dominate a given page of the comment area. If you have a longer quote or speech which you think is significant, create a separate post in the group.
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You've created God in your own image when...
Started by Grinning Cat. Last reply by Loren Miller Jul 31. 14 Replies 2 Likes
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Aron Ra on Belief and Bull ... Well, You Know!
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Loren Miller Jul 25. 2 Replies 3 Likes
From the first time I became aware of him, I have been unabashedly enamored of Aron Ra's unrelenting assault on belief and bullshit. The following is among my very favorite of his statements…Continue
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Nice Comment
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Comment by Mrs.B 3 hours ago
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All good.
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Comment by Stephen 8 hours ago
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“Hitchens' Razor” I would have given my right arm to have come up with that quote.
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That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
-- Christopher Hitchens, now known as “Hitchens' Razor”
There are believers out there who would have us think that assertion amounts to proof, even as they wish to insist that faith is a valid means to knowledge. They are wrong on both counts. Valid, independent, testable corroboration is the linchpin to understanding what is real and what is not.
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"Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility." - H. L. Mencken
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"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." - John Adams
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"There is not enough love and kindness in the world to give any of it away to imaginary beings." - Friederich Nietzsche
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"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." - Arthur C. Clarke
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A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
-- Luke 6:45
And just how often do we see evangelical Christians practice the first half of the above-cited dictum? Never mind Trump, who claims to be the best president Christianity ever had. The very thought is ludicrous.
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Amazing, that.
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Comment by Chris B yesterday
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