“Within the clerical system the repentant priest-abuser is easily forgiven – repeatedly – by the power of absolution; the innocent child-victim is abandoned with the undeserved psychic burden of guilt and shame.”
~Richard Sipe
The Atheist's Quote for the Day
Atheist's are a clever bunch, I mean, after all, that's why they're atheists, they constantly think about their surroundings. Here is a section for atheist's Quote of The Day. If ya have one or know of one, please post it!!
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Comment by Nathan on August 14, 2012 at 9:58am
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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason." Voltaire
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Comment by Central Scrutinizer on August 14, 2012 at 8:29am
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“Conservativism values hierarchy and tradition and rejects evidence-based reasoning in favor of arguments from authority. The imaginary god provides the perfect conservative authority; a completely evidence-free, ultimate authority.” ~Amanda Marcotte
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“If you have a monopoly on God, you can get away with anything.”
Anonymous Philadelphia priest
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“We were brainwashed from birth [in Ireland] to believe men of god were gods, when in fact they were mere boys playing god and controlling people through fear and guilt.”
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“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” H.L. Mencken
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“I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.”
Christopher Hitchens
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"“Vatican City is 109 acres of faith in a European sea of unbelief.”
George F. Will
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“Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.”
Bertrand Russell
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“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.” John Stuart Mill
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“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.” ~Richard Francis Burton
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Slavery is an institution that has gone back thousands of years in many places all over the world. In some places, it may well exist today. To say that the Cathlic Church supported it, is singling out one of many and is unfair. The world civilization evolved over thousands of years and now such practices are frowned upon. That is all.
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“None of the atheists I know would say absolutely that there is no god. Both the existence and non-existence of god are impossible to prove, so the rational atheist says simply: there is insufficient evidence to support belief in a god, therefore I don't believe in god. This is not an absolute position, just a logical conclusion.”
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“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit us to give any of it away to imaginary beings.”
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“Public statements of non-belief are treated as threatening, an affront to the religious, while the reverse is not true. More concerning is the enduring assumption that religious belief does not have to earn respect like any other view, an approach that has caused politicians and public figures across the UK to withdraw from asking the vital question: why is religion given such special status in government, culture and the media? Why is belief in a higher power an indication of greater moral fortitude, character and acumen?”
-Richard Dawkins
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“A lot of humour is based on popping the self-inflated worth of blinkered people who strongly believe they are right with no regard for any other view. Religion provides plenty of source material for this demographic.”
~Anon.
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“A ridiculous belief, even if sincerely believed, is no less ridiculous.”
~Eric Nowell
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“You have to question the authority of any religion that discourages discourse. It is only in total isolation that a religion is able to practice the kind of mind control necessary to keep the sheep in line.”
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“Religions are ideas, which should not be accorded automatic respect. Like all ideas they should be challenged, probed, and tested. With ideas, only the fittest should survive.”
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"I’ve never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith—it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe." R.A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
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