No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I; and all religion is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed and imagination.
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#1
Posted 12 October 2002 - 03:43 PM
No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I; and all religion is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed and imagination.
#2
Posted 12 October 2002 - 03:44 PM
-- Woody Allen, "The Early Essays," Without Feathers
#3
Posted 12 October 2002 - 03:45 PM
under what was claimed to be the command of God.
-- Susan B. Anthony, from Rufus K. Noyes, Views of Religion,
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#4
Posted 12 October 2002 - 03:45 PM
coincides with their own desires.
#5
Posted 12 October 2002 - 03:46 PM
without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the
organized hustles.
#6
Posted 12 October 2002 - 03:47 PM
deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
-- Woody Allen, "Selections from the Allen Notebooks," in New Yorker, Nov. 5, 1973
#7
Posted 12 October 2002 - 03:58 PM
#8
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:00 PM
-- Woody Allen, "My Philosophy," The New Yorker, Dec. 27, 1969
#9
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:00 PM
#10
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:02 PM
ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds
through all the centures since the Bible was written. And it is these
ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the
most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the
guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and
childish beliefs on us.
#11
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:03 PM
liberty was won in the United States two hundred
years ago. However, in the time since, and right now,
powerful voices are always raised in favor of bigotry
and thought control. It is useful, then, to have a
compendium of the thoughts of great men and
women of all faiths (and of none) on the subject, to convince us
that we men and woman of freedom are not and never have been
alone.
#12
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:03 PM
choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and
not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest
and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God,
God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
#13
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:04 PM
caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
-- Woody Allen, Without Feathers, 1975
#14
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:06 PM
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't.
#15
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:06 PM
worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an
underachiever.
-- Woody Allen
#16
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:07 PM
nothingness.
#17
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:10 PM
#18
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:10 PM
radio works because there are tiny people inside it.
-- Woody Allen,
#19
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:13 PM
likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish
fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days,
disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which
the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning
and hanging were Christian things to do....
#20
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:14 PM
#21
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:15 PM
-- Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State (1882), in seeming response to Voltaire's "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
#22
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:16 PM
fancy and credulity of men who have not yet reached the full development and complete
possession of their intellectual powers.
-- Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State
#23
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:16 PM
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"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated."
#24
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:16 PM
all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have
completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.
#25
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:17 PM
we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
#26
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:17 PM
negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory
and practice.
#27
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:18 PM
forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
#28
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:18 PM
Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to
forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
#29
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:19 PM
#30
Posted 12 October 2002 - 04:19 PM
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