"But still, It's out of spite that I refuse to ask for the doctor's help. So my liver hurts? Good, let it hurt even more!" Notes from underground- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"They stole through the forests and marshes again, and, by a miracle, reached their own lines. A machine gunner shot two of them on the spot, a third died of his wounds. Had they have been wiser, they would have said they were wandering in the forest. But they told the truth: They were escaped POW's. POW's, You Fuckers!"-Excerpt from One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solhenitsyn

"Curiosity won't just kill the cat, it'll rip it's head off and stump-fuck it til the sun comes up." -from Preacher

"Coconut rules. : it's white, fluffy, and refreshing. And, best of all, you have to break soemthing open to get it."-Larry Martin

"If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did.'" -- Jack Handey

"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today." -- Isaac Asimov

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination." --Mark Twain

"[The Bible] has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies." --Mark Twain

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

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." -- Chapman Cohen

"Religion is like chemotherapy, it may solve one problem, but it can cause a million more." -- John Bledsoe

"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true."-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." -- Seneca the Younger (4? B.C. - 65 A.D.)

"The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it." -- George Santayana

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?" -- Epicurus

"I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock." -- Howard Stern

"So far as a man thinks, he is free." Ralph Waldo Emerson

on top of the world, in depths of despair -- Goethe

To understand all is to despise all --Nietzsche

"I have no possessions that are truly my own. I am like a stranger at a rich man's gate. What I have is borrowed, and even my knowledge is nothing but hand-me-downs, and an occasional oddity I pick up by chance. I pass it on to others like me." --Erich Harth

"Should we be obeying some old piece of paper or should we make our own decisions?" -- Arthur (the PBS cartoon character)

"This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: The freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: Any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual." -- John Steinbeck

"Religion is a major weapon in the war against reality."-- unknown

"Help preserve your child's belief in Santa Claus. Tell him or her that Santa will send them to hell if they don't believe in him."-- unknown

"Like all religions, the Holy Religion of the Invisible Pink Unicorn is based upon both Logic and Faith. We have Faith that She is Pink; we Logically know that She is Invisible, because we can't see Her."-- unknown

"Although it is said that faith can move mountains, experience shows that dynamite works better."-- unknown

"If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going?" -- unknown

"Christianity is an appeal to selfishness. It is a promise of a great reward in the future which is bought with faith, obedience, time, effort, and money in the present." -- unknown

"Christians believe that the most wonderful thing that can happen to them is to go to Heaven, but few of them are in a hurry to make the trip." -- unknown

"The pig is taught by sermons and epistles to think that God has snout and bristles."-- unknown

"I am treated as evil by those who feel persecuted because they are not allowed to force me to believe as they do." -- unknown

The scientist yearns to find and eventually know the truth; The religious man wants the truth to fit his preconceived mold. So, as a result... The scientist alters his perception to conform to the facts; The religious man tries to change the facts to conform to his beliefs.-- unknown

"To become educated is to move from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty." -- unknown

"The Bible is the greatest hoax in all history. The leading characters of the Old Testament would today be in the penitentiary and those of the New would be under observation in psychopathic wards." -- Charles Smith

"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few." -- Marie Henri Beyle

"Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion."-- Nathaniel Branden

"The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out." -- Lizette Reese

"Age is not how long you've been alive. It's a matter of wisdom and experience"--Unknown

"The cause and explanation of what you do not understand may perhaps be the simplest thing in the world. Perfect your physics and you will understand Nature better, refine your reason, banish your predjudices, and you'll have no further need of your god"--the Marquis de Sade

"Insight is something I see to be more harming than words will ever be"--Thom Yourke, Lead singer of Radiohead

The following quotes were submitted by Rob Lewis on 1-28-00

a god(s) is only as strong and/or as omnipotent as the faith given to that god...the stronger the faith the stronger the god..the weaker the faith the weaker the god, if no faith is given to the god(s) they will inevitably die- in theory through the ever changing course of time and history all god(s) will die inevitably and new ones will be born creating a unreliable and increasinglly large number of false gods

is the only reason you believe in god is because you've known nothing else, your parents have had such a grip on your intellectual evaluations that your own choice of beliefs was dictatored?

hypocrosy is the cornerstone of worship

No true Ritual Magician has ever sacrificed life, drank goat's blood or taken part in any other stupid urban legend ritual. This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous, beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead, believe in nothing

that which is assumed can only sharpen our perception to the possibilities of the future

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -Anonymous

if Jesus is our brother, then why must we worship him? Why is he above us? I don't recall god liking it when fathers prefered one child over the others in the old testament

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being" --- C.G. Jung

The only thing truly sacred in this world is the integrity of one's own mind--Ralph Waldo Emerson

in a nutshell, religion is the layman's answer to everything

The only thing that makes anything a complication is our own reluctance and fear.---Rob Lewis

"So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg _Nightfall_

I think religion sucks, seriously. It's like a CrackerJack wedding ring.

possibilties are as infinte as the boundries that confine them

religion is just something to hang your hat on so that you can sound a little bit better when that pesky "what's the meaning of life?" question comes up at a party

the ressurection is the same as modern day Elvis sightings

The Bible says that " we are born in sin and shapen in iniquity." and in another place it says "That we go abroad speaking lies as soon as we are born.

i'd like to mention that you keep going back to "god's word" and the only word of god that you know is what is written in the bible... and in the bible it says that from the time man is born he speaks nothing but lies..so saying god exists would be a lie then, correct?

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

What we perceive when we touch physical matter, and we seem totally convinced it is solid, is just an effect created by electron repulsion (and electrons being something that could be considered etheric matter). The physical world we livein is made up of mostly just empty space.

Why is it that when a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment, but when a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95/minute?