Wednesday, April 20, 2005

More Religious Quotes

It just keeps getting better and better...

Far too many people believe in religion; only a handful believe in God.
--Unknown

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
--Johnathan Swift

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
--Stephen Roberts

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
--Seneca the Younger

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
--Chapman Cohen

Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church.
--Bumper Sticker

Dear God: Why is there so much violence in schools? -A Concerned Student
Dear Concerned Student: I'm not allowed in school. -God-

--On a T-shirt

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

And Even More...

...Religious Quotes...

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe.
--Carl Sagan

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
--Dave Barry

We give the child a false religion which is not of his own choosing. And religion is such a thing that unless you have chosen it for yourself it will not be of any value. Only when you have chosen it - as an outcome of the search from your own being, from your own pain and thirst - can you be religious.
--Unknown

You keep believing, I'll keep evolving.
--Bumper Sticker

Why does God allow suffering? Why do we?
--Unknown

3 out of 100 people waste their lives being atheists. 97 out of 100 people waste their lives being idiots, killing each other on who has got the better God.
--Unknown

Religion is for people who are afraid to go to hell. Spirituality is for those who have already been there.
-Unknown

Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.
--H. H. The Dalai Lama

God must grow weary of being called to on both sides of a war.
--Unknown

Religious Quotes

Just some religious quotes for no other reason than I found them telling...

And Jesus said unto them, "And whom do you say that I am?"
They replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of our very selfhood revealed."
And Jesus replied, "What?"

--Unknown

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed.
--Nietzsche about Christianity, "Will to Power

God is playing a comic to an audience that's afraid to laugh.
--Voltaire

Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot even make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
--Montaigne

I do not believe in a God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
--Albert Einstein

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.
--Unknown

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
--Thomas Jefferson

Friday, April 01, 2005

April the first

On this most important date, it is important to listen to the words of Mark Twain...

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Have a wonderful day!