No Post Until Sunday
I’ve been working ridiculous hours this week, and I’m preparing for the Carnival of the Godless on Sunday, so I won’t have a post up until then. Sorry for such a long gap. Speaking of COTG, I’ll accept contributions until Saturday at 8PM Eastern, so there’s still a chance for procrastinatheists to get something in. Remember, you can also submit a piece you like from someone else’s blog. However, “if you submit a post that you really think ought to be included from another blog, and the author of that blog also submits a post, we’ll use their post.”
Here are some good quotes to keep you amused until Sunday.
“A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.”
-James Feibleman
“The Jews, the Muslims and the Christians, They’ve all got it wrong. The people of the world only divide into two kinds, One sort with brains who hold no religion, The other with religion and no brain.”
-Abu-al-Ala al-Marri, 10th century Syrian poet
“I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true, for if so, the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.”
-Charles Darwin
“For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways of reason.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
“It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”
-Mark Twain
“Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.”
-Thomas Jefferson
~I AM~

July 31st, 2005 at at 8:08 pm
You quoted al-Marri? I thought I was the only English speaking person who knew about him!
By the way, do you have source for that quote? I’ve been trying to find some of his works but English translations seem to be rather sparse.
August 1st, 2005 at at 11:33 pm
I just found it on the web. It is pretty much impossible to find copies of the few English translations that have been done.
August 4th, 2005 at at 11:38 pm
Drat. I suspected as much. Thanks anyways.