I Don’t Want to Have This Argument Anymore
(Source: knusprig-titten-hitler, via eyesaiditbefore)
Skepticism is my nature. Free thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanism is my motivation.
— Jerry DeWitt
remembering Christopher Hitchens.
“the sleep of reason brings forth monsters”, sleep well, Mr. Hitchens.
videolink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z5Yk8uMdJ8
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.
Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
— Anonymous; quoted by Daniel Dennett in “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon” (via quotesipickedup)
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
— Stephen Roberts (via quotesipickedup)
The action of a man who volunteers to die for his fellow creatures is universally regarded as noble. The extra claim not to have “really” died makes the whole sacrifice tricky and meretricious. (Thus, those who say “Christ died for my sins,” when he did not really “die” at all, are making a statement that is false in its own terms.)
— God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Christopher Hitchens)
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
— God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Christopher Hitchens)
Skepticism is dangerous. That’s exactly its function, in my view. It is the business of skepticism to be dangerous.
— Carl Sagan - The Burden of Skepticism (via quotesipickedup)
