FREETHOUGHT

All Bibles are man-made. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake. . . Religion is all bunk. I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the schools of the U.S.                                            -Thomas Alva Edison

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. I have encountered a few creationists and because they were usually nice, intelligent people I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad, or only pretending to be mad.  If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy.  Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created that whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading mankind.                                         -Arthur C. Clarke

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The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death. Once people get hung up on theology. they've lost sanity forever.  More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.                                                                                         -Gore Vidal

I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. . . . if I were not an atheist,I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words.  I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.                                                      -Isaac Asimov

Faith in immortality, like belief in God, leaves unanswered the ancient question:  is God unable to prevent suffering, and thus not omnipotent?  or is he able and not willing it and thus not merciful? Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.                                            -Walter A. Kaufmann