Atheist QOTD

4th February 2012

Admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:07 +0000

“Who were the women who visited Jesus tomb?

Matthew 28:01 says: Mary Magdalene and the other Mary.
Mark 16:1 says: Mary Magdalene, the mother of James and Salome.
Luke 24:10 says: Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and other women.
John 20:1 says: Mary Magdalene.”

Anon.

3rd February 2012

Admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:08 +0000

“The church says only God decides when it's time to go. If that's the case why have average life spans doubled in the last hundred years or so?”

Anon.

2nd February 2012

Admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:05 +0000

“I don't believe in god because I've thought about it.”

Sean Lock

1st February 2012

Admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:09 +0000

“I am not hostile to the faith of my forefathers, but it is a cut-and-paste religion. Even the Virgin Birth itself was nicked.”

Jeremy Hardy

31st January 2012

Admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:09 +0000

“The reason we are not seeing any intelligent debate coming from the religious corner is because there simply aren't any intellectual heavyweights to represent them. The arguments are defunct.”

Anon.

30th January 2012

Admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:08 +0000

“Europeans may take a sceptical view of political leaders who are too quick to express religious faith in public, yet churches have a greater influence on politics than many people realise.”

Sophie in 't Veld

29th January 2012

Admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:09 +0000

“Christians have put up with a theory of salvation that has at its core the idea that God requires the sacrifice of his own son so that human sin can be cancelled. 'There was no other good enough to pay the price of sin,' we will all sing. The fact this is a disgusting idea, and morally degenerate, is obvious to all but those indoctrinated into a very narrow reading of the cross.”

Giles Fraser

28th January 2012

Admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:07 +0000

“The church has always been late. We were late on slavery. We were late on civil rights. And now we're late on this [the acceptance of gays].”

Jay Bakker

27th January 2012

Admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:09 +0000

“One hypothesis for the origin of religion is that it's a kind of 'costly signaling' – a way for people to prove their loyalty to the group by participating in complex rituals and extravagant shows of devotion. But there's an under-appreciated danger to this: when everyone in a community already follows a strict interpretation of faith, religious belief will have a tendency to spiral out of control into extremism, as group members go to greater and greater lengths to express their piety.”

Adam Lee

26th January 2012

Admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:06 +0000

“It's almost certain that some religious believers will be bothered by even the mildest of statements from non-believers, but that's a risk atheists have to be willing to take. Where believers are simply 'sharing' the 'good news', atheists are [allegedly] 'forcing' their atheism on others, or being 'rude' and 'disrespectful.'”

Austin Cline