I’ve always had a fondness for the concise and pithy; Today, I thought I’d share some of my favorites.
- Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Sir Francis Bacon
- “There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.
James Morrow
- The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
Delos B. McKown
- I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark Twain
- Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
Don Hirschberg
- Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
- Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
#1 by Blake on January 30, 2009 - 11:14 am
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Three more – two awesome, one silly:
Two from Douglas Adams:
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imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!’ This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it’s still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
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Silly:
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Give a man fire, keep him warm for the night. Set a man on fire, keep him warm the rest of his life.
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