Deadly, terrifying atheist quotes, beware!

Somebody sent somebody I know cyberly a list of atheist quotes in an attempt, he thinks, to turn his mind. I've responded to each:

> 1)
> Epicurus' old questions are yet unanswered.
>
> Is God will to prevent evil, but not able - then is he
> impotent?
>
> Is God able, but not willing - then is he malevolent?
>
> Is God both able and willing - then is he evil?
>
>
> David Hume

God knows that eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is necessary to become real beings. It's called knowing the difference. But once you eat of it you are no longer innocent (innocent to not do evil nor innocent to not be effected by evil). Epicurus neither knows God's motive nor man's state. He also, in a juvenile manner, judges God using a standard he can't get anywhere other than from God. He's a fat, gluttonous moron, and David Hume was a typical atheist moron for quoting him.


>
>
> 2) Fear was the gods' begetter in this world.
>
> Petronius

Right, because atheists have nothing to fear from their fellow man. Atheists are parasites on whatever civilization is currently happening that respects human rights (to any degree). Leave them to the 'world' and they survive about two minutes.


>
>
> 3) From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by
> God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
>
> Edward Abbey

In the mind of the atheist any creature other than man is 'cool', including tapeworms. This is due to self-loathing.


>
> 4) Man create the gods after their own image, not only with
> regards to their form but with regard to their mode of
> life.
>
> Aristotle

Yeah, gods like Molech. Animal, monstrous, filthy. Aristotle didn't get out enough. He should have followed Alexander around.


>
>
> 5) Whatever we cannot easily understand we call
> God; this saves much tear
> and wear on the brain
> tissues.
>
> Edward
> Abbey
>

Abbey was popular with dumb college students in the '60s. It's easy to see why.


>
> 6)
> If I were personally to define religion I would say that it
> is a
> bandage that man invented to protect a soul made bloody by
> circumstance.
>
> Theodore Dreiser
>

This is why you're not Tolstoy or Dostoevsky.


>
> 7) In church, sacred music would make believers of us all -
> but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.
>
> Mignon McLaughlin
>

This quote is the most on-the-mark thus far.


> 8) Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when
> they do it from religious conviction.
>
> Blaise Pascal
>

Religious conviction can mean anything. Marxism. Whatever. A person with a new heart and an unburied conscience doesn't do evil cheerfully, completely or any other way.


>
> 9)
> The religions of mankind must be classed among the
> mass-delusions of
> this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion
> ever
> recognises it as such.
>
> Freud
>

Freud was stump dumb.


>
> 10)FAITH: The effort to believe that which your commonsense
> tells you is not true.
>
> Elbert Hubbard
>

This may be true. You need to be regenerated and hence have a sanctified commonsense to know God's Word is true.


>
> 11) Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator
> of human intelligence.
>
> Anonymous
>

Man is fallen. Man doesn't have a pristine intelligence he had in the Garden. And faith in things one cannot see is not the same as 'blind faith.' That's a dumb, juvenile conflation.


>
> 12)
> Three-quarters of the American population literally
> believes in religious
> miracles. The number who believe in the devil, in
> resurrection, God
> does this and that - astonishing. These are numbers that
> you have
> nowhere in the industrial world.
>
> Noam Chomsky
>

Noam Chomsky to this day considers Pol Pot to have been a hero of his people.


> 13)
> A tyrant should always show a particular zeal in the cult
> of the gods.
> People are less afraid of being treated unjustly by those
> of this sort,
> that is if they think that the ruler is
> god-fearing and pays some
> regard to the gods; and they are less ready to conspire
> against him, if
> they feel that the gods themselves are his friends.
>
> Aristotle
>

Thanks, Aristotle. A lot has happened since you departed.


> 14)
> The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no
> more to the
> point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a
> sober one.
>
> George Bernard Shaw

Are drunks happy? Are they not more asleep? More prone to fall for illusion?


>
> 15) The Christian religion not only was at first attended
> with miracles, but even at this day
> cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
>
> David Hume
>

Regeneration by the Word and the Spirit is real. It happens. People experience it.


> 16) Once miracles are admitted, every scientific
> explanation is out of the question.
>
> Kepler
>

So?


> 17) There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic
> phenomena and religion.
>
> Havelock Ellis
>

Yes, and if fish and thoroughbred horses are similar then you have a point.


> 18) It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an
> anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously.
>
> Einstein
>

Jews are eternally ignorant of biblical doctrine. Yes, God became man. He didn't cease being God though!


> 19) Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength
> from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful
> impulses.
>
> Freud
>

Yeah, we humans are just secretly chomping at the bit to fulfill those ten commandments... Freud's brilliance strikes again.


> 20) Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.
> Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
>
> Anonymous
>

No, you can question them. Why not?


> 21)If
> triangles made a God, they would give him three sides.
>
> Montesquieu
>

If man had made the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, then man would not have made him an incomprehensible trinity.


> 22) Religion is for people who are afraid to go to hell,
> whereas spirituality is for people like me who have been
> there.
>
> Dave Mustaine
>

Dave thinks he's experienced hell because he got sick doing drugs and stuff. Hang in there, guy, like they say: when you're having a heart attack -- you'll know it.


> 23)
> This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need
> for
> complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart, is
> the temple;
> your philosophy is simple kindness.
>
> The Dalai Lama
>

The Dalai Lama is basically as profound as any number of new age gurus who play to women who call psychic hotlines. Thanks, Tibet.


> 24)
> Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it
> you would
> have good people doing good things and evil people doing
> evil things.
> But for good people to do evil things, that takes
> religion.
>
> Steven Weinberg
>

Except that Christianity is not about being good, it's about making contact. With God. Via the Holy Spirit. Being 'good' is for losers who are going to hell.


> 25) Not one man in ten thousand has goodness of heart or
> strength of mind to be an atheist.
>
> Samuel Taylor Coleridge
>

Not sure what Coleridge's quote is doing here.



> 1) The more I study religions the more I am convinced that
> man never worshipped anything but himself.
>
> Richard Francis Burton
>

You're learning about the fallen nature of man. Keep going.


>
> 2)
> You never see animals going through the absurd and often
> horrible
> fooleries of magic and religion... Only man behaves with
> such
> gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being
> intelligent,
> but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
>
> Aldous Huxley
>

The devil prefers to fool man. It's more fun for him. How fun is it to fool a dog?


>
> 3)
> For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really
> is than to
> persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
>
> Carl Sagan
>

No, delusion is not good. (Many of these quotes are missing necessary context. Obviously we're supposed to assume delusion = God or whatever, but it's hard to respond to many of these. 'Religion' is mentioned in a way that could mean chicken worship or whatever, for instance.


>
> 4) Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own
> mind.
>
> Ralph Waldo Emerson
>

Emerson wasn't an atheist. This quote though is another out-of-context empty thought.


>
> 5)
> It was of course a lie what you read about my religious
> convictions, a
> lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not
> believe in a
> personal God and I have never denied this but have
> expressed it
> clearly. If something is in me which can be called
> religious then it is
> the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so
> far as our
> science can reveal it.
>
> Einstein
>

Who cares what Einstein believed?


>
> 6) Atheism
> in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest
> affirmation
> of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose
> and beauty.
>
> Emma Goldman
>

Emma had been reading Nietzsche and was fired up. Nietzsche at that same time was catatonic in the upper room of his sister's house.


>
> 7) There is no God any more divine than Yourself.
>
> Walt Whitman
>

Well. OK. When and why did you start talking like the devil, Walt?


>
> 8) As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in
> schools.
>
> Anonymous
>

Rim shot.

>
> 9) I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up
> there, please save me, Superman.
>
> Homer Simpson
>

Modern day cartoons are soul-dead. Yes, all of them.


>
> 10) The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the
> most singular things in all literature.
>
> Alfred North Whitehead
>

This one I've heard before, and it does make one think. Of course humor can be many things to many people. I suspect there is little humor in the Bible because the Bible is serious as hell. And a little humor would give humans an 'out' to say, "See? He's just joking!" But if humor is about things that are true, and the Bible enables us to see our true nature, then there is humor in the Bible. It's kind of humorous that the Israelites hadn't been left to themselves two minutes before they started to worship a statue of a cow. When they were in the very presence of God Himself. That is humorous. If you can't see it that's your humorless problem.


>
> 11) When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God,
> forgetting we have just had one.
>
> Mignon McLaughlin
>

Yearn for a sign from God when suffering comes?


>
> 12)
> We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only
> in the sense and
> to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is
> beautiful and
> his children smart.
>
> H.L. Mencken
>

He spent his whole life coming up with that stuff.


>
> 13) I
> distrust those people who know so well what God wants them
> to do,
> because I notice it always coincides with their own
> desires.
>
> Susan B. Anthony
>

Like the ten commandments, yes.


>
> 14) By the year 2000, we will, I hope, raise our children
> to believe in human potential, not God.
>
> Gloria Steinem
>

Her human potential was writing a lot of dumb forgettable books, then dying of disease. I think. Is she still alive?


>
> 15) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
>
> Mark Twain
>

Mark Twain did a lot of psychological projecting in his life. He wasn't aware of the concept though.



>
> 16)
> Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture
> which they
> cannot understand; but as for me, I always noticed that the
> passages in
> Scripture which trouble me most are those that I do
> understand.
>
> Mark Twain
>

Atheists always have to be the top intellectual monkey.


>
> 17) I don't believe in an afterlife, although I am
> bringing a change of underwear.
>
> Woody Allen
>

A sad Jew.


>
> 18) If God created us in his own image, we have more than
> reciprocated.
>
> Voltaire
>

How so, Voltaire?


>
> 19) And that what we call God's justice is only
> man's idea of what he would do if he were God.
>
> Elbert Hubbard
>

You got it ass-backward and sideways, Elbert. What you call God's justice is your demand that he do what you consider to be good and just.


>
> 20) What? Is man just one of God's mistakes? Or is God
> just one of man's?
>
> Friedrich Nietzsche
>

Go back to your vegetable state, Friedrich.


>
> 21) PRAY: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled
> in behalf of a single petitioner
> confessedly unworthy.
>
> Ambrose Bierce
>

Excellent. Why not? God says do it.


>
> 22)
> I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects
> of his
> creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God,
> in short,
> who is but a reflection of human frailty.
>
> Einstein
>

Jesus, can we keep the Jews from theologizing?


>
> 23) Millions long for immortality who don't know what
> to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
>
> Susan Ertz
>

Humans.


>
> 24)
> I don't know that atheists should be regarded as
> citizens, nor should
> they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under
> God.
>
> George H. W. Bush


This 'quote' is a famous fake quote. It's only repeated by liberals and atheists. People under no conpunction by conscience or anything else to tell the truth.


>
>
> 25) Here lies an atheist
> All dressed up
> And no place to go.
>
> EPITAPH
>
>

Most likely, like most atheists, he expected to be reincarnated. It's only his dead flesh body there though. His soul and satanic spirit are elsewhere. Until the return of the King he will have his time to be regenerated by the Word and the Spirit if that is what God has in store for him.


- C.