Originally Posted by chula vista

"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