Words that do not match deeds are unimportant. -  Ernesto Che Guevara

You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. - Karl Marx

Work is the curse of the drinking class.

Marx (Groucho)

LLL&R

Maebh

"And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence."
- Bertrand Russell

"I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired."
-Richard Wagner

Le chemin est long du projet a la chose.
The road is long for the project to its completion.  Molière

Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. - Voltaire

No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.
- J.S. Bell

Cindy

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. - David Brooks

"Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God."
-- Felix Mendelssohn

Self-respect cannot be hunted.  It cannot be purchased.  It is never for sale.  It cannot be fabricated out of public relations.  It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when e suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it.  -Whitney Griswold

Why should I allow that same god to tell me how to raise my kids, who had to drown his own? - Robert G. Ingersoll

A fairy flies
over the skies,
Over the seas'
whispering breeze,
Winged flight flowing,
up and then down,
Bubbling dreams drifting,
dancing around,
The softness of flight
lost in delight.

S.K. Lindeman

tink

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.  Rosa Parks

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship god, but to create him.- Arthur C. Clarke

The fairy beam upon you,
The stars to glister on you,
A moon of light
In the noon of night,
Till the firedrake hath o'er-gone you.

Unknown


tink

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.  ~Ignazio Silone

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.  Seneca