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Quotes & More Quotes by Atheists (sig fodder inside)

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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


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    "You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world." - Bertrand Russell

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    ^^^ I think that's the greatest A&A related quote I've ever read...


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,065 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church - Ferdinand Magellan


  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    “I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian God may exist; so may the Gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.”

    - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), What I Believe,1925

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,753 ✭✭✭fitz0


    Not necessarily an atheistic quote, I don't know if Mr Herzog has any beliefs but it's certainly a nice quote.

    "I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature."- Werner Herzog in "Grizzly Man"


  • Registered Users Posts: 390 ✭✭sephir0th


    It's a great documentary. Treadwell was one crazy dude! Here's the full quote:

    Werner Herzog: And what haunts me, is that in all the faces of all the bears that Treadwell ever filmed, I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. To me, there is no such thing as a secret world of the bears. And this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food. But for Timothy Treadwell, this bear was a friend, a savior.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Not an ascribed quote but it sums up how I feel about religion.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    sephir0th wrote: »
    It's a great documentary. Treadwell was one crazy dude! Here's the full quote:

    Werner Herzog: And what haunts me, is that in all the faces of all the bears that Treadwell ever filmed, I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. To me, there is no such thing as a secret world of the bears. And this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food. But for Timothy Treadwell, this bear was a friend, a savior.
    I can't find a proper source (i.e. a direct quote), but Herzog is mentioned as an atheist on some reputable sites. It almost seems odd, given his films often touch on religion and religious rites, and he seems prone to a kind of lyrical mysticism in his narration.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭shizz


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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


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    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    I found this funny, I read it in Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts the other day...
    Fanatics always seem to have the same scrubbed and staring look about them. They have the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,553 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Fantastic book, that. :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Yeah I'm enjoying it, almost half way through it, and I want to go to India!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    Yeah I'm enjoying it, almost half way through it, and I want to go to India!

    I thought the first half was excellent, but it starts to creak a little towards the end. Very good read overall, though, and I don't usually bother with novels.


  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


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    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    "It seems clear that the Catholic Church is as misguided in speaking about the "moral" peril of contraception, for instance, as it would be in speaking about the "physics" of Transubstantiation."

    - Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Gbear wrote: »
    "It seems clear that the Catholic Church is as misguided in speaking about the "moral" peril of contraception, for instance, as it would be in speaking about the "physics" of Transubstantiation."

    - Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape

    Off topic, google quantum physics and transubstantiation for the lulz. :)


  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


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    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Gore Vidal. R.I.P.

    I will miss you. :(

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Life on Earth, you see, is not only brief but dismayingly tenuous. It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it. - Bill Bryson

    In other words, get out there and enjoy what's left of the 650,000 hours that we are biologically given.


  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


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    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    ^^^ Ahh.... Hypatia.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    robindch wrote: »
    ^^^ Ahh.... Hypatia.

    Ohhhh...*add's to list of 'must see' films*.


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