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hurl a flaming spear into a hornets’ nest.
the devout can always benefit from listening to nonbelievers.
the teachings of all religions did indeed have one thing in common. They were all dead wrong.
mankind’s earliest written language, cuneiform.”
They’ve made me a rat in a maze.
the myths of religion would be all but demolished by scientific breakthroughs.”
religion a form of mass delusion,
“had a relationship of wonder with their universe, especially with those phenomena they could not rationally understand.
Early humans,had a relationship of wonder with their universe, especially with those phenomena they could not rationally understand.
“We evolved from apes and we’re going extinct.”
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something!
“Those who live by the sword will die by the sword.”
“How is it that intelligent human beings cannot discuss their origins without invoking the name of God and fucking aliens!”
the intellectual community to stand united against the dangers of zealotry, superstitious thinking, and those who resort to violence, not facts, to further their beliefs.
Atheism is simply an admission of the obvious.”
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”
“To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency. As is letting our schools and churches teach outright untruths to our children. The time for action has come.
“I love humankind. I believe our minds and our species have limitless potential. I believe we are on the brink of an enlightened new era, a world where religion finally departs … and science reigns.”
Human intellect will continue to grow and evolve over time, enabling us to see more deeply into the truth.
Which would you choose? A world without religion? Or a world without science?
Robert, unless you’re a closet Druid who still raps on trees to wake them up, please leave that ignorant superstition in the past where it belongs!
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. —WINSTON CHURCHILL
“How can we create life?” The scientist laughed, shaking her head. “We can’t! That’s the point. When it comes to the process of creation—crossing that threshold where inanimate chemicals form living things—all of our science goes out the window.
Does the universe prefer order? Or chaos?”
uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear.
Churchill, who warned us: ‘The price of greatness … is responsibility.’”
“May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.”
I am a cosmic accident, and soon I will be dead.
“It is not necessary to invoke God to set the universe going.
Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson—appearing in an old clip from the Cosmos television show—declared good-naturedly, “If a Creator designed our universe to support life, he did a terrible job. In the vast, vast majority of the cosmos, life would die instantly from lack of atmosphere, gamma-ray bursts, deadly pulsars, and crushing gravitational fields. Believe me, the universe is no Garden of Eden.”
Fear of being judged by an omniscient deity always helps inspire benevolent behavior.
“Sometimes, all you have to do is shift your perspective to see someone else’s truth.”
Dialogue is always more important than consensus.
Would you rather live in a world without technology … or in a world without religion? Would you rather live without medicine, electricity, transportation, and antibiotics … or without zealots
waging war over fictional tales and imaginary spirits?”
all the religions of the world, about their shared origins, about the earliest gods of the sun, moon, sea, and wind. Nature was once the core. For all of us.
