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I believe in time,
matter, and energy,
which make up the whole of the world.

I believe in reason, evidence and the human mind,
the only tools we have;
they are the product of natural forces
in a majestic but impersonal universe,

—PZ Myers
Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder.

—Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta)
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

—Richard Feynman
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.

—Doug McLeod
It is said that from Mount Sinai God gave, amid thunderings and lightnings, ten commandments for the guidance of mankind; and yet among them is not found 'Thou shalt believe The Bible.'

—Robert G. Ingersoll
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did.'

—Jack Handey
The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.

—Ferdinand Magellan
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

—Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet)
The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse. I use it sometimes, but I do so sparingly. By misuse, I mean that people who have never even glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew what it is they are denying. This misuse give rise to absurd beliefs, assertions and egoic delusions, such as "My or our God is the only true God, and your God is false," or Nietzche's famous statement, "God is dead".

—Eckhart Tolle
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

—Thomas Jefferson
One of the aftershocks in Haiti has been the revelation that belief may be immune to experience. The survivors are praying to the author of the destruction.

—Leon Wieseltier (23/01/2010)
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

—Alan Watts
For some virtuous people a belief in God is necessary. Others, equally perfect, while observing every precept of the highest moral code, are happier believing in nothing.

—Giuseppina Strepponi
One must choose between God and Man, and all radicals and progressives, from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

—George Orwell
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians ever imagine that they are guilty themselves....The essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastely, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.…As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

—C. S. Lewis
In a spirit of shared faith and respect, we feel called to express grave moral concern about your [George W. Bush's] 'Clear Skies' initiative - which we believe is The Administration's continuous effort to weaken critical environmental standards to protect God's creation.

—The National Council of Churches
Unitarian Universalism celebrates the inherent worth and dignity of every person and seeks to build a peaceful, just and compassionate society. We welcome people of all different beliefs and we believe that the spiritual life is personal: a relationship between the individual and deity or spiritual force, however you define it. We believe no one should have their beliefs defined for them.

—Rev. William G. Sinkford
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to god.

—Lenny Bruce
Some atheists are so strongly anti God, it's as if some part of them is absolutely certain that he exists.

—Alex Reda
Humanism seeks the fullest development of the human being... Humanists acknowledge no Supreme Being and we approach all life from the point of view of science and reason. Ours is not a coldly clinical view, for we believe that if human beings will but practice love of one another and use their wonderful faculty of speech, we can make a better world, happy for all. But there must be no dogma.

—Marian Sherman (11/09/1965)

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