Atheist QOTD

10th March 2010

Admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:05 +0000

“Saudi Arabia, while containing only 1% of the world's Muslim population, accounts for 90% of expenditures on Islamic religious education worldwide.”

Alex Mayer

9th March 2010

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“If something defies belief, a good starting position is not to believe it.”

Jamie Whyte

8th March 2010

Admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:05 +0000

“Secularists have no objection to Roman Catholic homosexuals living celibate lives, their natural instincts held in abeyance by prayer and fasting according to the Church's teaching. But they object strongly to laws being passed by their parliaments which force secular gay men and women to live by those teachings.”

Emer O'Kelly

7th March 2010

Admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:11 +0000

“If the universe is less than 10,000 years old, then: all of geology and biology are wrong; the speed of light has been wrongly calculated, so Einsteinian physics is wrong; the distance and speed of other galaxies has been wrongly calculated, meaning that all of astronomy and therefore Newtonian physics are also wrong. For informed people to challenge accepted scientific orthodoxy on the basis of proper evidence is always healthy, but to debunk the whole of science on the back of a story passed down by some Iron Age goat-herders is just self-delusion.”

Neil Butcher

6th March 2010

Admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:05 +0000

“James Hutton, 'Father of Geology' tapped his hammer about Salisbury Crags, striking his own early blow at the Biblical timescale in 1788 when he declared: 'We find no vestige of a beginning… no prospect of an end.'”

Jim Gilchrist

5th March 2010

Admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:04 +0000

“Religions are all alike – founded upon fables and mythologies.”

Thomas Jefferson1743 – 1826

4th March 2010

Admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:05 +0000

“Nowadays, following a series of outrages in which religious motivation has played a major part, those who reject religion have had enough of pussy-footing around its votaries' sanctimonious self-regardingness, and are talking back. Are they saying that people who believe the ancient superstitions should be burned at the stake? Banned? Forbidden to congregate and "worship"? Forbidden to run schools to proselytise their own small children? No. Nor do they for a instant suggest that the holy should get a taste of the medicine they dished out during these past two millennia – though to hear the squeals from our anonymous ad hominem vituperators you would think so.”

A.C. Grayling

3rd March 2010

Admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:02 +0000

“My grandchildren recently asked me 'if God created everything, who created God?'”

Anon.

2nd March 2010

Admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:05 +0000

“I love the beliefs of Atheism because it gives you a sense of power. It makes you feel like you're in control of your entire life.”

Lauren Rumpler

1st March 2010

Admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:06 +0000

“Believing in god is very damaging to personal morality.”

Anon.