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"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religion than it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."- Albert Einstein"

All thinking men are atheists." - Ernest Hemingway

"Lighthouses are more helpful then churches." -Benjamin Franklin

"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows." - Mark Twain

"Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, imagine all the people Living for today. . .Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too ." John Lennon Famous Atheist Quotes

I was once invited to a Blue Jays party, to help chear them on, to win the world series.

When the camera got a shot of a couple of the players appearing to be praying at the beginning of the game,

I made the comment. "That makes me sick. A third of the world lives in extreme poverty,and these moronic Jesus freaks think some god's going to help them win a bloody ball game".

Being in a room full of Pentecostals, needless to say, my comment didn't go over to well. I wasn't invited back.

Was what I said untrue or simply blasphemous?

It may be a fact that your prayer give you comfort. But the truth is, there's nobody's listening.

“‘There are no atheists in a foxholes’ isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.”

One of the problems facing the world, attempting to grow from theism to humanism, is getting past the idea that without faith there is no morality.

When a child is small you tell him "if your not good Santa won't come" When he gets older you tell him "if your not good you will burn in eternal hell". It's not working anymore. Mankind needs to stop focusing on the here after and start paying more attention to the here and now.

Here is a poem my sister sent me. It does say a lot about the threat religion must be feeling.

Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.
If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.
For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.

In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.
We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.

They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong,

We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.
We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.

But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.

It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!

A reply I received when posting it to The Anti-church Forum

Well, it's just bleeding heart simpering, isn't it?
Oh, poor God... unable to stand up against the nasty people he himself created.
If God doesn't like it... if God can't put up with Earthly human justice as we create it for ourselves down here on this planet... .......

why doesn't he do something about it?
He can, after all. He's omnipotent.

He can just sort it all out with one blink of his divine eyes.

Yet he doesn't... ..
How strange! Could it possibly, just possibly be... that he doesn't exist?