In honor of International Blasphemy Rights Day, I shall share with you some of my favorite quotes (I can't promise that they are attributed to the right people, I just like the quotes).
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist” - Salman Rushdie
"It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.” - Penn Jillette
"I’m tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It’s kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he’d be worshipping me, because I’m more successful than he is.” - Marilyn Manson
“If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.” - Robert Green Ingersoll
“My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd” - Robert Green Ingersoll
“Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.” - George Carlin
"One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought." - Dan Savage
"Nothing fails like prayer" - Annie Laurie Gaylor
"The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading" -Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world." - Lydia Maria Child
"The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity." - Carl Sagan
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." - Thomas Paine
"“So that, in effect, religion, which should most distiguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational and mere senseless than beasts themselves” - John Locke
"[Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction." - Christopher Hitchens
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” - Christopher Hitchens
"How do you show faith is a good thing... without evidence?" - Matt Dillahunty
"Don't run on automatic." - Keight Fahr BionicDance
"We have one life to live and one planet to share. There are innumerable challenges that we must overcome for all life, human and non-human alike, to share this planet and prosper. It is more productive and meaningful to attend to that which we know is here and can demonstrate results in a universe that is complex, wondrous and beautiful, than to focus on a universe that you can only imagine and hold onto with blind faith?" - Dale
I hope you have a great and wonderful life, keep thinking.
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