The Quotable Atheist

[Illini]

Wow coming from you. Again WOW!

Wow, what?

 

[mrcrash]

Oh, and I bet the Christian founders of these Universities would to:
Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Oxford...

I am sorry death eats a cracker. You posted quotes and festeringIdiot posted paragraphs. Please continue, I should not have helped ruin your thread.

 

[barman]

John Adams:
“ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I

John Adams was an atheist??

 

[barman]

Samuel Adams:
“ He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all…

Sam Adams was an atheist??

 

[barman]

Benjamin Franklin:
“ God governs in the affairs of man.

Ben Franklin was an atheist??

 

[barman]

Alexander Hamilton:
• Hamilton began work with the Rev. James Bayard

Al Hamilton was an atheist??

 

[barman]

John Hancock:
• “In circumstances as dark as these, i

John Hancock and Patrick Henry were atheists??

I'm sensing a fraudulent trend here....

 

[barman]

Wow coming from you. Again WOW!

heh

 

[festeringZit]

John Hancock and Patrick Henry were atheists??

I'm sensing a fraudulent trend here....

working on that post-count barman?

 

[barman]

Dunno.....Was startled to find such content in a thread for famous quotes by atheists.

 

[barman]

Thomas Jefferson: (1743-1826), third U.S. president.

"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies."

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. ... perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind ... a mere contrivance [for the clergy] to filch wealth and power to themselves."

"In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty, he is always in allegiance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own. ... History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. ... Political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves [of public ignorance] for their own purpose."

 

[nimue77]

Being part of a religion is to be "owned."

Owned.

 

[Illini]

Being part of a religion is to be "owned."

You're right. Probably not in the way that you think.

 

[DeathEatsaCracker]

I have examined all the known superstitions of the world and I do not find
in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They
are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men,
women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been
burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this
coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to
support roguery and error all over the earth.

-Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States

 

[DeathEatsaCracker]

The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for
absurdity.

-John Adams, 2nd President of the United States

 

[DeathEatsaCracker]

Faith means not wanting to know what is true.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Romanowski]

DEAC is consumed with being an atheist

dont think he has much of an identity without it

we are all happy for you guy

 

[Romanowski]

Faith means not wanting to know what is true.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

died a lonely fuck

 

[Romanowski]

Thomas Jefferson: (1743-1826), third U.S. president.

"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies."

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. ... perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind ... a mere contrivance [for the clergy] to filch wealth and power to themselves."

"In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty, he is always in allegiance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own. ... History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. ... Political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves [of public ignorance] for their own purpose."

Thomas Jefferson was a mason and thus believed in god or a supreme being

calling out Christianity doesn not make you an atheist

carry on

 

[SayHeyKid]

DEAC - I have no problem with you being against religion, but being an atheist in nature is a religion, to an extent.

A truly openly minded person would realize there is no way in hell to the know the mysteries of this universe and what happens after this life, but we can ponder.