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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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Liz Cheney's Opening Statement to the January 6th Committee Public Hearing
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Mrs.B Jun 11. 2 Replies 1 Like
Since there has been such interest in the comments Liz Cheney made during the first public hearing held by the House Select January 6th Committee, I thought I would post it here for those of you who…Continue
Tags: Trump, hearing, insurrection, "Donalld, committee
Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow: “We will not let hate win”
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Andy Stout May 4. 5 Replies 3 Likes
Lately I have noted an increase in rants, diatribes, and otherwise potent and declamatory statements by Democrats, in the defense of the LGBTQ+ community, responding to overblown claims about…Continue
Tags: LGBTQ+, Critical Race Theory, sexualizing, grooming, Mallory McMorrow
George Carlin - On Why Our Species Is Failing (1992)
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Mrs.B Apr 22. 5 Replies 3 Likes
Besides being a brilliant comedian and practiced public ranter, George Carlin was a adept student of humans and humanity – likely among the reasons why he was so accomplished at those first two…Continue
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Brandi Carlile almost dies -- 7/30/21 (Delanceyplace.com)
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Andy Stout Mar 28. 8 Replies 4 Likes
To be honest, I have NO idea who Brandi Carlile is (though I suppose I could Google her), but the following brief story of her illness, coma, and recovery are pretty striking. As my friends from…Continue
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Comment was by Mrs.B on June 29, 2022 at 1:30pm
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Exactly, & why so many differing ''rules''?
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If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful humans to deliver an endless plethora of confused and contradictory messages. God would deliver the message himself, directly, to each and every one of us, and with such clarity as the most brilliant being in the universe could accomplish. We would all hear him out and shout "Eureka!" So obvious and well-demonstrated would his message be. It would be spoken to each of us in exactly those terms we would understand. And we would all agree on what that message was.
-- Richard C. Carrier, Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
This is a question I have been asking for a while: why is it that Yahweh can't talk to us DIRECTLY? Why does he need SPECIAL representatives to do that work for him? The answer is simple: something that doesn't exist can't communicate! As it comes to this, Winston Hamilton, the Atheist Pig, put it very well:
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Disgust for the country is only growing.
Back to the back alley abortions, self abortions, suicides, withholding sex, increasing forced sex.....
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Obviously, without the right of women and men to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.
-- Gloria Steinem, from an email
Pardon my missing yesterday. Brain fart.
And Ms. Steinem is absolutely right with her statement. Without the means to control their own bodies, women are clearly relegated to second-class citizen status. After nearly half a century of having that ability, having that right stripped away is nothing less than intolerable and an exercise in barbarism. It should be intolerable.
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If the people of this religion [Islam] are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry, and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries. This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed.
-- Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
And this mostly occurs because 1) unfounded beliefs don't do very well against established and provable facts and 2) at some level of their lives, believers actually KNOW this.
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They want their intercourse, but then deny a pregnancy result as not theirs, could be anybody's.......sigh.....
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It makes me so angry!
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
-- Gloria Steinem
But men can't get pregnant, and a particular group of them seem to have a studied indifference to women's desire to control their own bodies and therewith, their lives. Yesterday, four such men, plus one misguided woman, voted to take a long-established right away from women, a right that had been in place for not quite half a century. The opinions of a majority of Americans didn't matter. The legal principle of stare decisis didn't matter. Apparently, all that mattered was that they could successfully punch down on women for little other reason than that they could, and that they could justify their reasoning on legal technicalities.
So they did it, and this country is smaller, meaner, and less free because they did.
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That gawd thing needs to clean up the mess & do some preventions.
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Stephen, I see it as being part and parcel of their indoctrination, as well as their attempt to maintain that indoctrination. Truly, genuinely SAD.
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