This, will be the final of the Atheism series that I’ve started a long time ago, pheew…In case you have missed it, read up. These are my favorite quotes that have fueled my beliefs/philosophy and i should note something: as I’ve been coming to understand and truly respect people of other beliefs.
While I may think that the beliefs in the super-natural or acts and involvements of the meta-physical is ludicrous, they all have their places and as an evolutionist I am, it helped our survival otherwise, irrational beliefs wouldn’t have survived.
Back to the atheism at hand:
“Religions are like glow-worms: they need darkness in order to shine. A certain degree of general ignorance is the condition for the existence of any religion, the element in which alone it is able to live.” (Arthur Schopenhauer)
“Well I don’t think we’re for anything. We just products of evolution. You can say ‘Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose.’ But I’m anticipating having a good lunch. ” (James Watson)
“Man is a marvelous curiosity… he thinks he is the creator’s pet..http://www.zenecherub.com/wp-admin/post-new.php.He even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes; and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to Him, and thinks He listens. Isn’t it a quaint idea?”
“What? Is man just one of God’s mistake? Or is God just one of man’s?”
“CLERGYMAN, n: A man who undertakes the management of one of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.”
“Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives tales as to become of it afterwards, and you have a hooked fish, a mental slave!” (Theodare Dreiser)
“Personally, I should not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion, there is no wish unfulfilled. We has it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we then whine because we know it will return.” (H. P. Lovecraft)
Listen people!
Life is a giant, invisible scale with two sides:
Good and Bad.
You and you beliefs
Are the weights.
The things you do each day
Determine the balance.
Your conscience is a flawless
Judge and jury.
The only question is what you want.
I’m telling you the natural facts
For what it is worth.
Listen to me, people.
You makes you own heaven and hell
Right here on earth
(The Temptation, You make Your Own Heaven and Hell Right here)
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