Mine (can't remember who said it or the exact wording) is "A bad person can do bad things, but it takes religion to make a good person do bad things"
2007-02-27 14:17:38 · 18 answers · asked by God Fears Me 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've been using this as an e-mail signature in honor of Black History Month:
"I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."--Frederick Douglass, former slave and abolitionist
You may also like this link, and the book mentioned in it:
http://www.alternet.org/story/47765/
2007-02-27 14:22:31 · answer #1 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 from Woody Allen: "no longer in basic terms is there no God, yet attempt getting a plumber on the weekends." "eternal nothingness is okay, while you're dressed for it." ==================== i'm no longer an atheist yet an agnostic, nonetheless. i admire a number of Woody Allen's artwork, and love various the suited artwork of extensive-unfold atheists like Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut and George Bernard Shaw. nevertheless, i've got had some unusual issues ensue to me that make me ask your self a pair of completely atheist view of the universe.
2016-11-26 19:50:28 · answer #2 · answered by zell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Define atheist quote? Is it just something against religion? If so, probably this one by C.S. Lewis.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
2007-02-27 14:25:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Millions of innocent men,women,and children,since the introduction of christianity,have been burnt,tortured,fined,imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support error and roguery all over the earth.- 1785, Thomas Jefferson
2007-02-27 14:35:24 · answer #4 · answered by Randy T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
(Hmmm, was he talking about Christians? Nahhhhh!!!)
2007-02-27 14:31:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with KC. It's been said a few different ways, but it definitely says it best.
2007-02-27 14:22:37 · answer #6 · answered by Born of a Broken Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"To see by faith, one must close the eye of reason" Benjamin Franklin
"In all my years of reading and research, nothing has led me to believe there is a god." Abraham Lincoln
2007-02-27 15:00:13 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Robert Ingersoll on his deathbed: Don't let the heavens take me away.
2007-02-27 15:19:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"I am a deeply religious non-believer. This is a somewhat new kind of religion." -- Albert Einstein
A religion to which I subscribe as well.
2007-02-27 14:22:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
ive heard about that...
"Good people do good things and evil people do evil things but for good people to do evil things, it takes religion".
wait. this one's my fave
"Truth does not have to be accepted on faith. Scientists do not hold hands every Sunday, singing, "Yes gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! Amen."
2007-02-27 14:23:56 · answer #10 · answered by Pisces 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋