“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
– Stephen Roberts
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
- Epicurus
“Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.”
– Tom Waits
You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.
–[from Usenet]
“If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the
worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.” -
Woody Allen
“We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the
extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children
smart.”
– H. L. Mencken
“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than
the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Creationists make it sound like a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after
being drunk all night.”
- Isaac Asamov
“I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of
confidence.”
– Doug McLeod
“It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is
the parts that I do understand.”
- Mark Twain
“‘In God We Trust.’ I don’t believe it would sound any better if it were true.”
- Mark Twain
“the trouble with theocracy is that everyone wants to be Theo.”
– James Dunn
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