"6andretti" <dequardo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:42:12 -0000, "Mike P" <privacy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >"Von Fourche" <kho****ong@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> The first time in my adult life I did something special today. I
did
> >> it on
> >> my own too (well, I had the missionaries sitting with me and the
Heavenly
> >> Father and Jesus was leading me) - I went to Church! You don't know
> >> how hard it was for me to do this. I did it tho. I had faith, put
my
> >> trust
> >> in the Heavenly Father and Jesus, and showed up this morning for
> >> services.
> >
> >Why?
> >
> >"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins is a very interesting read..
>
> So is the Bible. Try it sometime.
>
> Prof. Dawkins should have a chat with Stephen Hawking.
I'm somehow not at all surprised that Mr. Know-
Nothing responds and regales us with yet another
canard and pathetically feeble attempt at misdirection.
Will he N E V E R either stop or become contrite?!
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists
of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one
who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel
- Ambrose Bierce
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the
occurrence of the improbable. - H. L. Mencken
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on
facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
- Thomas A. Edison
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere
superstition. - Alexander Hodge
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because,
if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of
reason than that of blindfolded faith. - Thomas Jefferson
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith
does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning
faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely
vile! - Kurt Vonnegut
In the affairs of the world men are saved, not by faith, but
by the want of it. - Benjamin Franklin
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening;
I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin
in the morning. - Aleister Crowley
The smallest of minds are the easiest to fill with faith.
- Pope Alexander VI
Once there was a time when all people believed in God
and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.
- Richard Lederer
When the churches literally ruled society, the human
drama encompassed: (a) slavery; (b) the cruel subjection
of women; (c) the most savage forms of legal punishment;
(d) the absurd belief that kings ruled by divine right; (e)
the daily imposition of physical abuse; (f) cold heartlessness
for the sufferings of the poor; as well as (g) assorted
pogroms ("ethnic cleansing" wars) between rival religions,
capital punishment for literally hundreds of offenses, and
countless other daily imposed moral outrages.... It was the
free-thinking, challenging work by people of conscience,
who almost invariably had to defy the religious and
political status quo of their times, that brought us out of
such darkness. - Steve Allen
There was a time when I believed in the story and the
scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it,
just as I believed there was a Devil.... Suddenly the
light broke through to me and I knew this God was a
lie.... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation
nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty.... Why
do people go on pretending about this Christianity?
- H.G. Wells
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity
has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
Religion is the brainchild of fear, and fear is the parent
of cruelty. The greatest evils inflicted on humankind are
perpetrated not by pleasure-seekers, self-seeking
op****tunists, or those who are merely amoral, but by
fervent devotees of religion. - Emmanuel Kofi Mensah
The man who is always worrying about whether or not
his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't
worth a damn. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Men become civilized, not in pro****tion to their willingness
to believe, but in pro****tion to their readiness to doubt.
- H. L. Mencken
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom,
and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
- Clarence Darrow
One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.
- H. L. Mencken
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he
commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed
in polygamy; that he persecuted for opinion's sake; that he will
punish forever, and that he hates an unbeliever, the effect in my
judgment will be bad. It always has been bad. This belief built
the dungeons of the Inquisition. This belief made the Puritan
murder the Quaker. ~ Robert Ingersoll
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the
former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
- Hippocrates
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record
of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of
science. - Upton Sinclair
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic
of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental
characteristic of Western science. - Gary Zukav
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon
a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it
holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. - H. L. Mencken
Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters
of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that
science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion
has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists
is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of
science. - Robert Ingersoll
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is
science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house
and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
- Henri Poincare
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists
have certainty without any proof. - Ashley Montague
The im****tant thing in science is not so much to obtain
new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about
them. - Sir William Bragg
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted
intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
- George Santayana
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know
that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and
then they would actually change their minds and you never
hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It
doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are
human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens
every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that
happened in politics or religion. - Carl Sagan
What can be asserted without evidence can also be
dismissed without evidence. - Christopher Hitchens
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards
the Universe and denies only gods fa****oned by men
in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
- George Santayana
It was the experience of mystery, even if mixed with fear,
that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein
"The most im****tant thing is not to stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein
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