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On May 12, 1797 while living in Paris, France Tom Paine wrote the following...
– The Ungodly Origins of the Bible
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care...
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Why are there 10 commandments?
Here’s how it happened: About five thousand years ago, a bunch of religious and political hustlers got together to figure out how they could control people and keep them in line. They knew people were basically stupid and would believe anything they were told, so these guys announced that God God personally had given one of them a list of ten commandments that he wanted everyone to follow. They...
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Today is Good Friday, observed worldwide by Jesus buffs as the day on which the...
– George Carlin (When will Jesus bring the porck chops?)
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“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it’s stunning how little imagination most people display.” — Chuck Palahniuk
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” — Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)
“There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.” ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion