"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." ~ Marcus Aurelius

"Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion-several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven." -Mark Twian

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -Carl Sagan

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Ideas not Ideals
Secular not Sectarian
Theory not Theology
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You have the right to speak,
You do not have the right to be heard.
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Religion is not sacred,
It merely hijacks what is sacred to humanity.
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Freedom of speech means nothing without
freedom of thought.
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Evolution is scientific fact,
Natural selection is the theory.
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Knowledge is gained from a book,
But wisdom is gained through life.

* (above personal quotes from YT'er InstinctandIntellect)
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Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when Scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt and a rib-bone.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune "3 for the Price of 1" God.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how Jehovah/Spirit/Christ slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and animals!

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then flew up into the sky.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established approximate age of the Earth (a few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by cattle-sacrificing Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that the Earth is a few generations old.

4 - You believe that the entire population of this Planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."

3 - While Modern Science, History, Geology, Biology, and Physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" your bible-god is real.

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the Will of God.

1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and Church History - but still call yourself a Christian.
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"This is the era of petty kingdoms and a new dark age. But I ask you, my friends, did not we need precisely this war? Shall we be governed by injustice and superstition or shall we be governed by reason? Mankind is the animal that invented knowledge,(he has become strong through technology, because in truth, he is the weakest and most frightened animal, and this is why we are so clever) there is nothing we cannot do! Think to yourself for a second that we are just animals, and look at what promise we have, we happy few!

Take heart my friends for we shall conquer!

Ask yourself this: what kind of person needs a god, what sort of animal needs dogma?

Up here the air is crisp and clear, we are brave enough to admit our ignorance, and still have respect for each other. Down there in the cities men still Believe, but is not all that buzzing and jumping around like the deeds and words of insects?"
~ diogeneslaertius666