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Thomas Jefferson on Christianity and Religion

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:25:42 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Thoughts of another founding father.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

-Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, April 22, 1786. (on the British regarding America, but quoted here for its universal appeal.)

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.

-Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822.

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter.

-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

Tags: religion, thomas jefferson, politics, atheism, freethought, agnostic, founding father, god, christianity, bible

Theist Quotes - a collection from various forums

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:30:25 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: This doesn't even scratch the surface! Most of it is hilarious, and sad, that people can be so intellectually impoverished.

I left off the names because they are probably embarrassing by now, assuming these people have improved their thinking.

But the site (and shown here is a very short sample) credits the source and the person (otherwise you might not believe it with your own eyes)!

Clip Source: www.rebas.se

Plagues are good and God knows this. Without them he couldn't teach us how to stop them.

One does not have to read well, one merely must believe; often the mentally challenged are quicker to believe than others.

Your belief is reality. I've yet to see anybody prove that reality exists.

Atheism is a bizaare claim. I percieve it the same as if someone told me they could not make themselves invisible.

look at the queen ant and you will see God in action. The queen ant is like God in a way with all the ants working to keep her alive.

And in fact, what is objective reality anyway, other than a myth that some people called scientists decide to believe in.

As for the 'stories' in the Bible. They are all true... at least those that have happened.

why do atheist so desperately try to hold on to reality? what are you afraid of?

I took 1st year high school algebra, which is all a person needs to know in order to prove Einstein and his disciples wrong.

Tags: theism, religion, atheism, atheist, quotes, bible, god

Quotations by Abraham Lincoln

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:46:02 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: ""In religion, Mr. Lincoln was about of the same opinion as Bob Ingersoll, and there is no account of his ever having changed. He went to church a few times with his family while he was President, but so far as I have been able to find out, he remained an unbeliever. Mr. Lincoln in his younger days wrote a book, in which he endeavored to prove the fallacy of the plan of salvation and the divinity of Christ."

Clip Source: www.positiveatheism.org

My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

It is an established maxim and moral that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.

When the Know-Nothings get control, it [the Declaration of Independence] will read: "All men are created equal except negroes, foreigners and Catholics."

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Tags: religion, ab lincoln, christianity, atheism, freethought, freedom

The Devil's Delusion

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:28:00 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: More from the debates

Better to read the whole review...i could only clip a lil bit.

http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/dont-write-off-religion-just-yet/

Clip Source: www.samharris.org

Don’t write off religion just yet

THE DEVIL’S DELUSION

Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions

By David Berlinski

There is actually very little that is new in the so-called new atheism, whose claim to be based on science is as dubious today as it has ever been. A critique of the contemporary assault on religion is therefore much needed, and in The Devil’s Delusion, David Berlinski gives us a polemic that is powerful, erudite and often savagely funny. Berlinski - a mathematician and well-known critic of evolutionary theory, though not a proponent of “intelligent design” - has two targets in his sights: the conventional belief that religious thought is intrinsically superstitious and the materialist philosophy that Dawkins and his fellow “brights” - as members of the atheist community fondly describe themselves - mistakenly identify with science.

Tags: religion, debate, science, reason, www.samharris.org

MySpace: No place for Atheists?

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:56:34 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.secularstudents.org

Social networking site, MySpace.com, panders to religious intolerants by deleting atheist users, groups and content.

Early this month, MySpace again deleted the Atheist and Agnostic Group (35,000 members). This deletion, due largely to complaints from people who find atheism offensive, marks the second time MySpace has cancelled the group since November 2007.

What’s unique in this case is that the Atheist and Agnostic Group was the largest collection of organized atheists in the world. The group had its own Wikipedia entry, and in April won the Excellence in Humanist Communication Award (2007) from the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University and the Secular Student Alliance.

“MySpace refuses to undelete the group, although it never violated any terms of service,” said Bryan Pesta, Ph.D., the group’s moderator. “When the largest Christian group was hacked, MySpace’s Founder, Tom Anderson, personally restored the group, and promised to protect it from future deletions.”

Tags: myspace, atheism, social networking, religion, beliefs, agnostic, discrimination

Albert Einstein Quotes on a Personal God

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:05:03 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Did Albert Einstein believe in God? Many religious theists cite Einstein as an example of a smart scientist who was also a religious theist like them. This supposedly rebuts the idea that science conflicts with religion or that science is atheistic. However, Albert Einstein consistently and unambiguously denied believing in personal gods who answered prayers or involved themselves in human affairs - exactly the sort of god common to religious theists claiming that Einstein was one of them.

Clip Source: atheism.about.com

Albert Einstein Quotes on a Personal God: Einstein Denied Personal Gods, Prayer

Albert Einstein Regarded Belief in Personal Gods as Fantasy, Childish

2. Albert Einstein: It is a Lie that I Believe in a Personal God

3. Albert Einstein: Human Fantasy Created Gods

4. Albert Einstein: Idea of a Personal God is Childlike

5. Albert Einstein: Idea of a Personal God Cannot be Taken Seriously

6. Albert Einstein: Desire for Guidance & Love Creates Belief in Gods

7. Albert Einstein: Morality Concerns Humanity, Not Gods

9. Albert Einstein: Few Rise Above Anthropomorphic Gods

10. Albert Einstein: Concept of a Personal God is the Main Source of Conflict

11. Albert Einstein: Divine Will Cannot Cause Natural Events

- Albert Einstein, Science and Religion (1941)

1. Albert Einstein & Spinoza's God: Harmony in the Universe

I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.

Tags: atheism, bible, christianity, god, religion, albert einstein, faith

What is God For?

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:50:17 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: ?

Clip Source: www.iansouter.com

I found an anti-war poster on StumbleUpon which inspired me to make this.
Click on it to get a larger version. Print it out and stick it up.
I hope it will help spread the positive views of atheism and inspire people to see how pointless war is.

Tags: atheism, bible, christian, christianity, god, religion, war

15 Quotes by Famous Atheists

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:17:14 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Bertrand Russell:

“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.”

Clip Source: www.dvorak.org

15 Quotes By Famous Atheists

9. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot

15. It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous. — Gloria Steinem

5. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche

8. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright

3. All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway

11. The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. — Sigmund Freud

2. I don’t believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life. — Andrew Carnegie

4. Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. — Benjamin Franklin

Tags: atheism, bible, christianity, god, life, religion, society

The Incredibly Tiny Christian Universe

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:15:49 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: "..astronomers estimate that hundreds of billions of galaxies exist in the universe and that each galaxy could contain hundreds of Christian-sized universes!"

See? There's no "real" conflict between religion and science...is there?

Clip Source: www.nobeliefs.com

The Incredibly Tiny Christian Universe

Incredible as it may seem, many Christians today believe that a god created the universe approximately 6000 years ago. That means that everything in it, planets, stars, moons, comets, and even light itself, must have originated at the time (or after) the Great Creation. Consider that no energy or matter in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light. If you take the speed-of-light back in time 6000 years to the point of the alleged Creation, you get a spherical radius of only around 6000 light-years. This means that a 12,000 diameter light-year bubble represents everything that could possibly happen or exist within the time range of Christian chronology.

Consider that the entire Christian universe cannot measure larger than a single average galaxy in the known universe! The miniscule Christian universe would sit as a tiny dwarf within single galaxy such as the Andromeda galaxy (shown above).

Tags: atheism, bible, christian, christianity, god, religion, atronomy

Proving that God's Plan is Impossible

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:14:34 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Proving that God's plan is impossible. Short video.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Proving that God's Plan is impossible

Tags: christian, christianity, god, religion, atheism, bible, god's plan

Does the Universe Have a Purpose?

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:29:43 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Scholarly essays by professors and such.

Clip Source: www.templeton.org

Does the Universe Have a Purpose?

Unlikely. Lawrence M. Krauss	Very Likely. Bruno Guiderdoni
Yes. David Gelernter	No. Christian de Duve
Perhaps. Paul Davies	Yes. John F. Haught
No. Peter William Atkins	Not Sure. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Indeed. Nancey Murphy	Certainly. Jane Goodall
Yes. Owen Gingerich	I Hope So. Eli Wiesel