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George Carlin
Quotes
1. Religion easily has the best bullshit
story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced
people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky.
Who watches everything you do every minute of every day.
And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things
he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these
things, he will send you to a special place, of burning
and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to
live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the
end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you
and he needs money.
2. Atheism: A non-prophet
organization.
3. I’m completely in favor of the
separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two
institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of
them together is certain death.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotes
4. Which is it, is man one of God’s
blunders or is God one of man’s?
5. Faith means not wanting to know what is
true.
6. Convictions are more dangerous enemies
of truth than lies.
Albert Einstein
Quotes
7. What I see in Nature is a magnificent
structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly,
and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of
“humility.” This is a genuinely religious feeling that
has nothing to do with mysticism.
8. It seems to me that the idea of a
personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot
take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal
outside the human sphere. … Science has been charged with
undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s
ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis
is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had
to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward
after death.
Albert Einstein, “Religion and
Science”, New York Times Magazine, 9 November
1930
9. If people are good only because they
fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry
lot indeed.
Gandhi
Quotes
10. The most henious and the must cruel
crimes of which history has record have been committed
under the cover of religion or equally noble
motives.
Mohandas K Gandhi, Young India, July 7,
1950, quoted from Laird Wilcox, ed., “The Degeneration of
Belief”
11. I like your Christ, I do not like your
Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your
Christ.
Mark Twain
Quotes
12. “It ain’t those parts of the Bible that
I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I
do understand.”
Mark Twain
13. A man is accepted into a church for
what he believes and he is turned out for what he
knows.
Mark Twain
14. What God lacks is convictions —
stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or
a Catholic or something — not try to be
everything.
15. Under certain circumstances, profanity
provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain, quoted from
Curmudgeon-Online
16. “In God We Trust.” I don’t believe it
would sound any better if it were true.
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