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So I was on Orkut the other day , this good for nothing 'virtual black hole' , where u spend cash to scrap ppl , u meet everyday in the real world and dont care to talk !
For reasons I do not remember , but suspect had something to do with boredom and plain dementia , I search for 20ish smthn Indian females who are agnostic / athiest .
And i get less than 50 females !!
just 50 out of more than a million indian chicks who orkut are non religious ! whoa !
and these are the eductaed ppl . wow !
well i doubt this will help , but here's a list of some well known smart ppl i remember , know who are anti-religion , and a few kick ass quotes from them .
worth a read even if u are pro religion .
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Bertrand Russell
Carl Sagan
George Bernard Shaw
Isaac Asimov
Napoleon Bonaparte
Andrew Carnegie
Arthur C. Clarke
Mark Twain
Michael Crichton
Douglas Adams
Charles Darwin
Marlon Brando
Sigmund Freud
Robert Frost
Bill Gates
Linus Travoldas
Ernest Hemingway
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Howard Hughes
Thomas Jefferson
Billy Joel
Abraham Lincoln
Karl Marx
Arthur Miller
Thomas Paine
Christopher Reeve
Salman Rushdie
William Howard Taft
Leo Tolstoy
Vincent Van Gogh
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Zappa
Clarence Darrow
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- George Bernard Shaw, Irish-born English playwright
Fear is the parent of cruelty, therefore it is no wonder if religion and cruelty have gone hand-in-hand.
-Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, educator, mathemetician
Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
-Freidrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.
-Dave Matthews, Australian rock musician
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
-Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and lecturer
All thinking men are atheists.
-Ernest Hemingway, American author
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
-Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter
By the year 2000, we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
-Gloria Steinam, women's rights activist
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will--and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
-Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek
O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!
-Michel Eyqyem de Montaigne, French essayist
Who wants to go to Heaven with all those asshole angels?
-Marilyn Manson, American rock musician
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.
-James Madison, U.S. President
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
-Sigmund Freud, German-born psychologist
Forgive, O Lord, my little joke on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
-Robert Frost, American poet
Religion is all bunk.
-Thomas Edison, American inventor
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
-Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist
Faith is believing something you know ain’t true.
-Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
- Arthur C. Clarke, author
Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
- Arthur C. Clarke, author
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor
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If only ppl used their heads , like thses men and women !!
For reasons I do not remember , but suspect had something to do with boredom and plain dementia , I search for 20ish smthn Indian females who are agnostic / athiest .
And i get less than 50 females !!
just 50 out of more than a million indian chicks who orkut are non religious ! whoa !
and these are the eductaed ppl . wow !
well i doubt this will help , but here's a list of some well known smart ppl i remember , know who are anti-religion , and a few kick ass quotes from them .
worth a read even if u are pro religion .
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Bertrand Russell
Carl Sagan
George Bernard Shaw
Isaac Asimov
Napoleon Bonaparte
Andrew Carnegie
Arthur C. Clarke
Mark Twain
Michael Crichton
Douglas Adams
Charles Darwin
Marlon Brando
Sigmund Freud
Robert Frost
Bill Gates
Linus Travoldas
Ernest Hemingway
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Howard Hughes
Thomas Jefferson
Billy Joel
Abraham Lincoln
Karl Marx
Arthur Miller
Thomas Paine
Christopher Reeve
Salman Rushdie
William Howard Taft
Leo Tolstoy
Vincent Van Gogh
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Zappa
Clarence Darrow
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- George Bernard Shaw, Irish-born English playwright
Fear is the parent of cruelty, therefore it is no wonder if religion and cruelty have gone hand-in-hand.
-Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, educator, mathemetician
Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
-Freidrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.
-Dave Matthews, Australian rock musician
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
-Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and lecturer
All thinking men are atheists.
-Ernest Hemingway, American author
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
-Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter
By the year 2000, we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
-Gloria Steinam, women's rights activist
If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will--and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
-Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek
O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!
-Michel Eyqyem de Montaigne, French essayist
Who wants to go to Heaven with all those asshole angels?
-Marilyn Manson, American rock musician
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.
-James Madison, U.S. President
Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
-Sigmund Freud, German-born psychologist
Forgive, O Lord, my little joke on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
-Robert Frost, American poet
Religion is all bunk.
-Thomas Edison, American inventor
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
-Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist
Faith is believing something you know ain’t true.
-Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
- Arthur C. Clarke, author
Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
- Arthur C. Clarke, author
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor
***
If only ppl used their heads , like thses men and women !!
posted by scoffes at 10:45 PM
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Einstein quotes
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
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If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)
Isaac Newton believed that the Bible is literally true in every respect. Throughout his life, he continually tested Biblical truth against the physical truths of experimental and theoretical science. He never observed a contradiction. In fact, he viewed his own scientific work as a method by which to reinforce belief in Biblical truth.
Clearly rada is confusin between believin in religion and believin in god , teh two are totally diff .
andyway hers' wat Einstein said in an interview wit Peter Bucky :
BUCKY:
Do you think perhaps that most people need religion to keep them in check, so to speak?
EINSTEIN:
No, clearly not. I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies. This does not make sense. The proper guidance during the life of a man should be the weight that he puts upon ethics and the amount of consid eration that he has for others. Education has a great role to play in this respect. Religion should have nothing to do with a fear of living or a fear of death, but should instead be a striving after rational knowledge.
And Newton was a moron , if he did so !
"If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)"
whoever tis person b...
my reply to him...
"if there were no god, ALL wud b atheists"
n issac newton... hmmm... no wonder he cud not offer a better explanation to the origins n inner workings of the universe..
my fav ones...
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- George Bernard Shaw, Irish-born English playwright
All thinking men are atheists.
-Ernest Hemingway, American author
Forgive, O Lord, my little joke on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
-Robert Frost, American poet
Being educated doesn`t mean being an atheist,u rogue!:P
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