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Sunny Jackson

Great Minds: Atheist Quotes - 0 views

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Atheists

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  • "Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." --Don Hirschberg
  • "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" - Epicurus
  • "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan
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  • "And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence." - Bertrand Russell
  • "Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." -- Chapman Cohen
  • "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."
  • "Only Sheep need a shepherd!"
  • "It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." - Mark Twain
  • "In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • "The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence." -- Abu Ala Al-Ma'arri
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Atheists

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  • When you’re religious, you see the world through a lens. You have an entirely different mindset.
  • You become condescending and feel as though yourself as an entity is worth more than whoever you’re talking to.
  • Every accomplishment of yours is not technically yours
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  • You’re not an individual
  • Nothing matters because you’ll be going to heaven eventually, which causes you to miss out on many of the joys in life that you’ll never get back. 
  • When I finally decided that I didn’t believe in God anymore, it freed my mind. It freed me of living in constant guilt
  • It made me appreciate and marvel at nature so much more because there was nothing to attribute its beauty to other than the scientific processes that resulted in it.
  • I had a much more open mind
  • I stopped judging people
  • I am now an individual with my own morals and ethics and philosophy and achievements that I have accomplished through my own means.
  • I’m really happy to be an atheist, and I don’t plan on changing that any time soon.
  •  We adapted in such a way that we can thrive in the world around us.  In such a way that we can observe it and make decisions about what we like about it.  And I think that is part of the reason why beauty even exists.
  • in order to be genuinely happy, you have to find happiness in yourself
  •  If a doctor is telling you a treatment plan, you should probably listen.
  • I know your brain is telling you that there is no hope, but you cannot listen to yourself.
  • there are plenty of things to be hopeful about
  • you need to live in the moment
  • worrying about the future ruins the moment, and the moment is what the future is built on
  •  If you’re not living for happiness in the moment, your future is going to be spent wondering where you went wrong
  • if you are depressed, you cannot listen to your brain
  •  You have to train yourself to be happy, and that can be the biggest challenge there is.
  • I am always here to listen if you are having a rough time, because I know how hard it can be, and I would have given anything to have a shoulder to cry on
  • if I can be that shoulder for you now, I will gladly assume the role.
Sunny Jackson

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Atheists

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  • Are you a moral relativist, or do you believe in absolute morality? 
  • do you believe that cultures, or even individuals, can define their own rules on what is moral and what is not, or do you believe that every action has one unique, absolute, and true moral assessment?
  • the morality as defined by the Old Testament is different than the morality defined by the New Testament
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  • who or what determines which actions are moral and which are not? 
  • I do not trust any human being, no matter how smart they are, including myself, to prescribe to me what is moral and what is not
  • Always minimize both actual and potential suffering; always maximize both actual and potential happiness.
  • how and why morality can be universal
  • where it comes from
  • Is your trust in science based on faith or based on science?
  • observed and interpreted the evidence yourself and drew your own conclusions
  • Science has the ability to self correct.
  • Is absence of proof the proof of absence?
  • What does the atheist position offer people?  How has it improved your life?  Why will it improve others’ lives?
  • When you attempt to use logic to conclude facts about religion, are you starting at the conclusion (God is not real), or are you starting at true premises? 
  • If you are starting at true premises, then what are they?  And how are they true? 
  • If all Christians believed that the Bible was entirely allegorical, what would you argue in support of your position?
  • Why is it important to you that everyone is an atheist?
  • Do you believe in extra-terrestrials?
  • I don’t want to hear about how religious people are more “moral” when their god slaughters all the first born male children of egypt.
  • Where does language, art, music, and religion come from?
  • always check your sources
  • if a new piece of evidence arises
  • The human brain. All our mental capacity for reason and creativity come from it.
  • damage to the brain’s structure affects the mind
  • I don’t know, but I do know that it was not the invisible man in the sky, because the invisible man in the sky is not an explanation.
  • Your mind does NOT survive your death.
  • damaged brain, damaged mind
  • Destroyed brain, destroyed mind.
  • The b**** says VERY SPECIFIC things about your god, things that are impossible.
  • I can now see reality from a clear perspective
  • there is no original sin
  • as a society I do think we need less god and less religion
  • you argue that god is real because of X. I take a look at X and it does not conclusively prove that god is real, so I go on being an atheist.
  • all the “proofs” provided by theists have already been refuted
  • I was a religious person when I was younger and I believed it
  • After I read all the arguments against it, I could not believe it anymore.
  • I would still be an atheist.
  • Other people’s beliefs do not affect my beliefs.
  • I can’t speak for every atheist.
  • Keep it to yourself and away from the government and small children.
  • the distances between planets are ENORMOUS
  • YOUR god is supposed to be EVERYWHERE
Sunny Jackson

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Atheists

shared by Sunny Jackson on 22 May 13 - No Cached
  • I try to approach all people with equal amounts of respect.  But if I am approached with unjust rudeness, condescension, or disrespect, I will sometimes (if the situation calls for it) answer in the fashion I was addressed.
  • because people don’t get to be respectfully reasoned with if they’re going to insult me from the get-go
  •  One theist being rude to you does not say anything about theists
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  • In terms of atheism, I will always show respect to people who are curious, even if their curiosity seems intrusive or easily solved by looking at Google.  I will always answer genuine questions in a genuine fashion.
  •  If someone addresses me or atheists in general in a derogatory way, however, they usually don’t deserve any graciousness on my part.
  • Because we already fight such a daunting stereotype
  • everyone is an individual person who is responsible for their actions and no one else’s
  • there’s a time to be nice and then there’s a time to be real
  • Conversely, a theist griping about how rotten atheists are is really saying something about himself: that he’s biased, unjust, and silly for generalizing.
  • remember that people will usually treat you the way you treated them
  • they were the ones setting the tone
  • people like this are not indicative of all
  • If you’re using their individual behavior as an excuse to dislike their entire group, you’re the one who is really adding to the stereotypes
  •  Blanket assumptions work both ways.
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brights Humanism Atheists

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    Religion Be Damned Richard Dawkins defends the godless among us.
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