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"That is also the excuse when they can't answer something themselves."
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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 Ruth Anthony-Gardner Sep 28. 19 Replies 3 Likes
This one, with its context, is too long for the group comments, but in my opinion the context deserves to be more widely known. You'll probably enjoy it, whether or not you're a writer."Now,…Continue
Tags: Shitty First Drafts, Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott, writing
H. L. Mencken on the Scopes "Monkey Trial"
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Joan Denoo Sep 4. 6 Replies 4 Likes
Hanging around Hemant Mehta's Friendly Atheist website has been enormously beneficial to my quote-mongering predilections. Every so often, someone posts something brilliant, and, good little…Continue
Tags: Monkey trial, Scopes, H. L. Mencken
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 on October 21, 2020 at 1:24pm
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Seems to me it's not an explanation, it's an excuse.
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I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me 'Well, you haven't been there, have you? You haven't seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid' - then I can't even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don't think the matter calls for even-handedness at all.
-- Douglas Adams
Doug, you just said a mouthful ... and I agree with you 100%!
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Frightening.
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Deeply disturbing...
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A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
-- Robert Oxton Bolton
And there is no belief that accomplishes that possession quite so perniciously as religion.
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Always on that self righteous pedestal.
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I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.
-- Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
For me, too, Christopher.
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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
-– Francis Bacon
An "absolute monarchy" which doesn't much like to be questioned ... except that WE DO question it and will continue doing so.
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Yup, a favourite.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.
-- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An oldie but goodie for your Saturday!
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