Shocking Atheist Quotes

SebBerkovich

Well... i thought in the interest of fairness, we could have somewhere to post all the.. "Shocking" stuff said by Atheists.

i'll start off mild.

"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile." — Kurt Vonnegut

krudler

^ What's shocking bout that?

SebBerkovich

krudler wrote: »

^ What's shocking bout that?

Listen.. i had to wade through a lot of really reasonable arguments to get that, it wasn't easy.

This is more of a challenge than anything else.

del88

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."
Joseph Stalin

pauldla

Was Bill Hicks an atheist? Some of his routines were pretty shocking, for their day.

Sarky

"Goat boy is here to please you."

pauldla

^^^

Yep, I was thinking of goatboy too.

Sarky

It was the sound effects that did it, really.

pauldla

It seems he wasn't really an atheist, though...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080629195009AAkKFNL

Oh well. Guess we'll have to put goatboy in the 'shocking deist quotes' thread instead.

Hotblack Desiato

SebBerkovich wrote: »

"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile." — Kurt Vonnegut

Unquestioning belief in anything is terrifying. It's the enabler of every type of oppression in the world.

mickrock

"I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars."
Richard Dawkins

Sycopat

mickrock wrote: »

"I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars."
Richard Dawkins

Depending on which of the pythons wrote the line, that could potentially be an actual submission.

Although I'm not sure monty python still counts as shocking...

Calibos

Epicurus' famous quote is shocking, in that here is someone from the heyday of the Roman Empire with more cop on than billions of people in the 21st century.

Sarky

Sycopat wrote: »

Although I'm not sure monty python still counts as shocking...

There are still enough people, I reckon, who refuse to watch it because it's "blasphemous" to make it shocking. To them, anyway.

Bannasidhe

'Oh God! That really ****ing hurt. Ow!! Jesus Christ - who left that there?!?!?!? Assholes! ' Bannasidhe. 10/01/13.

Sarky

Earlier tonight I said, in response to someone nagging me about healthy eating (in Subway of all places), "WELL HEALTHY VEGETABLES CAN RIDE A BICYCLE MADE OF DICKS STRAIGHT TO HELL"

legspin

Calibos wrote: »

Epicurus' famous quote is shocking, in that here is someone from the heyday of the Roman Empire with more cop on than billions of people in the 21st century.

Not wishing to nitpick 'coz his is probably my favourite arguement against the existance of gods but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus.

Bannasidhe

legspin wrote: »

Not wishing to nitpick 'coz his is probably my favourite arguement against the existance of gods but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus.

Atheist claims to not be nit picking ...and then proceeds to nit pick!

This is beyond shocking - I'm Horrified! :eek:

legspin

No, I was not wishing to sound like I was but failed miserably.
Sorry

Bannasidhe

legspin wrote: »

No, I was not wishing to sound like I was but failed miserably.
Sorry

Shhhhh - I'm just looking for something an atheist said to be outraged about.

Well - context! Yeah. What about that then?

Barr125

"I'll admit it! There is a God, Hitler was an atheist, Evolution is a hoax, Atheism is a religion and I LOVE TO SIN!!" - No Atheist Ever.

MagicMarker

These aren't atheist quotes!! They're just quotes by atheists.

Newaglish

"Would you like to come up to my room for a coffee?"
- Anon

pauldla

"That Rebecca Watson is a bit of all right, eh?"
-Prof R Dawkins (citation needed)

Bannasidhe

pauldla wrote: »

"That Rebecca Watson is a bit of all right, eh?"
-Prof R Dawkins (citation needed)

'She was very good in Harry Potter.'
Christopher Eric Hitchens. (citation also needed).

Calibos

Bannasidhe wrote: »

'She was very good in Harry Potter.'
Christopher Eric Hitchens. (citation also needed).

Now that I think about it, is Emma Watson your love child Richie because you two look strikingly similar.

Calibos

legspin wrote: »

Not wishing to nitpick 'coz his is probably my favourite arguement against the existance of gods but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus.

I have no objection to his country of origin being shifted east a few hundred miles nor his date of birth shifted back another half millennia.

Unlike certain quarters, I have no problem being corrected and learning the truth/ something new

Bannasidhe

'Soft Kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr'
Dr Sheldon Cooper.

Attabear

Bannasidhe wrote: »

'Soft Kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr'
Dr Sheldon Cooper.

Didn't his mother come up with that song? Or was it Mee Maw?

Bannasidhe

Attabear wrote: »

Didn't his mother come up with that song? Or was it Mee Maw?

But he still said it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKLlb3Yc-Us

ShooterSF

Bannasidhe wrote: »

'Soft Kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr'
Dr Sheldon Cooper.

Whilst playing "Settlers of Catan"

I have sheep, I need wood. Who has wood for my sheep? C'mon ... I just want wood. Why are you making it so hard?

Lucy8080

"No man ever believes that the bible means what it says;he is always convinced that it says what he means."

-George Bernard Shaw


"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever concieved."

-Mikhail Bakunin


"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says;he is always convinced that it says what he means."

-George Bernard Shaw.

dead786

Dades wrote: »

The latest dead one re-reg is now permabanned.

Shocking indeed. The guarding of freedom are now permabanning people. Pure fvcking madness. I am heavily drunk

want to hear my shocking quote
Supporters of Opium can survive at a Social Forum, only under a Canopy and Shelter of Dades/Robin/Penny/Wibbs/Tom dune (gordon is a good person) type Moderators/Administartor.Once such Canopy is lifted and removed----your philosophy, propaganda, program--- collapses like a bubble.

keane2097

lol

Beruthiel

dead786 wrote: »

S
want to hear my shocking quote
Supporters of Opium can survive at a Social Forum, only under a Canopy and Shelter of Dades/Robin/Penny/Wibbs/Tom dune (gordon is a good person) type Moderators/Administartor.Once such Canopy is lifted and removed----your philosophy, propaganda, program--- collapses like a bubble.

Coherent as usual I see.

I'm dreadfully upset to be left out of such an esteemed list of Mods/Admins.
I shall now site ban you out of sheer bitterness and spite.

ShooterSF

Maybe I've been dabbling in coding too much over the last few days but what if the canopy is only lifted or removed?

bnt

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts:
Those with brains, but no religion,
And those with religion, but no brains.

Do not suppose the statements of the prophets to be true; they are all fabrications. Men lived comfortably till they came and spoiled life. The sacred books are only such a set of idle tales as any age could have and indeed did actually produce.

-- Abu'l-`Ala' al-Ma`arri (973–1058) (Arabic: أبو العلاء المعري), poet of Ma`arra, quoted in Crusades Through Arab Eyes (1989) by Amin Maalouf

(via Wikiquote)

These are shocking for the time and place in which they were said - the Muslim world, over a thousand years ago - and the fact that he survived to about 85 years old, despite the way he spoke out against all religions.

robindch

bnt wrote: »

These are shocking for the time and place in which they were said - the Muslim world, over a thousand years ago - and the fact that he survived to about 85 years old, despite the way he spoke out against all religions.

In its younger years, islam, and many of the parts of the world it controlled, put great store by dialectic debate and did much to encourage science, learning, philosophy, poetry, the arts, mathematics and much else, all as means to extend the human understanding, and thence the glory, of the works of Allah. The curtains, however, began to descend with infinite slowness as the Crusades began, and, I suppose, could be considered fully shut by around the late 1400's and the final expulsion of islamics from Spain.

However, at their height, the islamic civilizations of the Middle East out-gunned the christian civilizations of Europe in just about every area of endeavour, and easily so.

As good an example as any is the life of the astronomer, mathematician and poet Omar Khayyam, and his exquisite Rubaiyyat as rendered by Edward Fitzgerald, from which the following few verses are taken (the last verse included just coz it's great):

Old Omar wrote:

Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust
Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went.

With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd--
"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."

But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me
The Quarrel of the Universe let be:
And, in some corner of the Hubbub coucht,
Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.