Atheist QOTD

“The last shred of the Catholic claim to being an ethical institution has been eliminated by the cruel perfidy of its clerics.”

Gregory Paul

“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”

Stephen Hawking

“Nobody should be surprised when we priests, bishops and popes sink into the bottomless abyss of immorality, for the celibacy of the priestcraft is only a cudgel in the hands of Catholic officials to drive us to the haunts of immorality.”

Anon.

“The problem is that people believe that living in a society were people are free to believe in what ever they want is the same as living in a society were people can believe what they want free from criticism.”

Anon.

“When religious leaders come to be identified as spokespeople for an entire faith community, it is easy for a particular religious perspective to be seen as the will of that group of people. And if a community has few other spokespeople apart from religious ones then ethnic and religious identities merge, the waters muddy and it becomes harder for compromise to occur.”

Faisal al Yafai