Online Version of “The Science of Religion: Darwin’s God” Article
March 4, 2009 by ithinkthereforeib
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March 4, 2009 by ithinkthereforeib
Here are some interesting quotes for those who want some more debating:
1. Creationists make it sound like a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night — Isaac Asimov
2. I don’t believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life. — Andrew Carnegie
3. All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway
4. Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. — Benjamin Franklin
5. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche
6. The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. — George Bernard Shaw
7. Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. — Kurt Vonnegut
8. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright
9. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot
10. A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. — Samuel Clemens
Source: http://listverse.com/religion/top-15-quotes-by-famous-atheists/
And another one that I found somewhere else:
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca “the Younger,” Roman stoic philosopher, writer, and politician (4-65).