"I would challenge anyone here to think of a question upon which we once had a scientific answer, however inadequate, but for which now the best answer is a religious one. Now, you can think of an uncountable number of questions that run the other way, where we once had a religious answer and now the authority of religion has been battered and nullified by science, and by moral progress, and by secular progress generally. And I think that’s not an accident." -- Sam Harris
"Why should I allow that same God to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown His own?" -- Robert G. Ingersoll
"If god doesn't like the way I live, Let him tell me, not you." -- Unknown
"If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No, not if you did not know." "Then why did you tell me?" -- Annie Dillard, 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek'
"Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions." -- Frater Ravus
"'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'" -- Douglas Adams
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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