quoth/naelyn/atheism

Quote #2988

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:28:39 -0800

Being an atheist doesn't mean that life isn't important. It means that we get to create our own sense of importance. The human scale is where we live. It's what we have. And if we decide that that's the most important scale for us, there's nobody out there to tell us otherwise.
- Greta Christina
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Quote #2609

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:48:25 -0800

Highly intelligent people are mostly atheists. Not a single member of either house of Congress admits to being an atheist. It just doesn't add up. Either they're stupid, or they're lying. And have they got a motive for lying? Of course they've got a motive! Everybody knows that an atheist can't get elected.
- Richard Dawkins
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Quote #1557

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:34:12 -0700

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
- Richard Dawkins
Book: “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, Chapter I: “The Anaesthetic of Familiarity”

Quote #1531

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:32:05 -0700

I am an intransigent atheist, but not a militant one. This means that I am an uncompromising advocate of reason and that I am fighting for reason, not against religion. I must also mention that I do respect religion in its philosophical aspects, in the sense that it represents an early form of philosophy.
- Ayn Rand [Alice Rosenbaum]