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“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that c...”
“The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it becau...”
“This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest i...”
“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”
“I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.”
“I dont know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, Why dont you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation? And I...”
“Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below...”
“So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, beca...”
“Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and disp...”
“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”
“If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.”
“Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.”
“Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?”
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.]”
“How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.”
“Even the devils are theists. I am of all people one of the least qualified to judge, but I do believe that some atheists are closer to God than are some theists. With Him, it is better to be distan...”
“Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believ...”
“Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?”
“I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.”
“By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical tim...”
