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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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