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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.Lance Armstrong
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People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion. .Unknown
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Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and the fearful.. Now the belief in God may turn out at the last trump to be a mistake. Meantime, let us be quite clear, it is not merely the comfort of the simple--though it is that too, much to its glory--it is a formidable intellectual position with which most of the first-class minds of the human race, century in and century out, have concurred, each in his own way..speaking of crutches-- Freud can be a crutch, Marx can be a crutch, rationalism can be a crutch, and atheism can be two canes and a pair of iron braces. We none of us have all the answers, nor are we likely to have. But in the country of the halt, the man who is surest he has no limp may be the worst-crippled.Herman Wouk
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There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad.. To produce this horrible confection at home, start with our genocidal treatment of the Native Americans, add a couple hundred years of slavery, along with our denial of entry to Jewish refugees fleeing the death camps of the Third Reich, stir in our collusion with a long list of modern despots and our subsequent disregard for their appalling human rights records, add our bombing of Cambodia and the Pentagon Papers to taste, and then top with our recent refusals to sign the Kyoto protocol for greenhouse emissions, to support any ban on land mines, and to submit ourselves to the rulings of the International Criminal Court. The result should smell of death, hypocrisy, and fresh brimstone.Sam Harris
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Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.Sigmund Freud
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Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God.… Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ.Seraphim Rose
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Life itself is only a vision, a dream."" Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space--and you!Mark Twain
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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.Victor Hugo
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We are all bounded with each other on the basis of our beliefs and values; when we question those values, we are certainly left alone, away from our families, friends and the dear one. And that is a cost benefit analysis we all make and we keep satisfying ourselves with the status quo of situations.M.F. Moonzajer
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We, humans, easily associate every Good with God and every bad with devil, ignoring the fact that God is the creator and origin of everything.Tarif Naaz
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If there is any kernel of truth in the religions we so deplore, and they are just a carnival of errors, the truth is that it's possible to sink into the present moment in such a way as to find it sacred and to cease to have a problem.Sam Harris
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I wonder how it is possible to believe in religion and also believe nothing is wrong with you.M.F. Moonzajer
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Lunatics! Vain creatures! They don't believe in God, they don't believe in Christ! Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end up by eating one another, that's what I prophesy.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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..the world would be a better place if we all believed whatever we wished but behaved towards each other as if there was no external deity to sort out our own problems.. If you happened to hold the finest theological beliefs there are and if you understand all the best and most detailed divine precepts and commandments but in your daily life you are actually an angry, shouting inhumane swine, then that's the way you will be remembered. Believing is all very well, but behaving is what you are judged by and remembered for.Buckman
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Religion poisons everythingChristopher Hitchens