NationStates Jolt Archive

"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."

- Abraham Lincoln, American president

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

-Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."

- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President, author, scientist, architect, educator, and diplomat

"I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life – our desire to go on living … our dread of coming to an end."

- Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847-1931).

Just to name a few:

http://www.wonderfulatheistsofcfl.org/Quotes.htm

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_agnosticismatheism.html

http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Religions-Atheist-Atheism-Agnostic.htm

Lincoln and Jefferson were deists if I remember correctly.

The denial of dogmatic christianity is not a rejection of God or religion.

"Science is the record of dead religions."
- Oscar Wilde

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof."
- Ashley Montague

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
- Denis Diderot

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God

"God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it."
- Carl Sagan

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move."
- Douglas Adams

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move."
- Douglas Adams

I loved that book. It was so funny.

Lincoln and Jefferson were deists if I remember correctly.

The denial of dogmatic christianity is not a rejection of God or religion.

He never seemed to take any interest in any other religion. He did use references of God a lot, it's really hard to say. I think he was somewhere between a deist and an agnostic. And yes, under some definitions of agnosticism, being a deist fits in.

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/steiner0.htm

"How many times do I have to tell you people, it's 'Son of Cod' .... Yosef Cod Heisenberg ... the shoemaker!" -- Jesus