To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom. - Susan B. Anthony
The stupid. It hurts.
"Children are your responsibility, not your personal sheet of blank paper. They aren’t there for you to scribble on, crumple up, and throw away if you don’t like them. Isn’t it weird how the religious wackjobs can howl about how a fetus is a human being that must be granted the privilege of existence, but once it pops out, it reverts to being a possession, a thing that mommy and daddy can do with as they please?"
— PZ Myers, Pharyngula, Jan. 8, 2010
Word.(via prologic)
Too true.
(via godtoldmeto)
AC Grayling is one of the most well spoken individuals I think I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to.
Christianity
1. Abandon the mythology of Genesis. God did not make the world in 6, 8 or 1000 days or 1000 days of years. Stop squabbling over Hebrew syntax and what you think the Biblical writers meant. They meant what they wrote and they were wrong. We know far too much about how things really came about to believe any of the nonsense written by a Hebrew-speaking priest of the sixth century BCE who thought things came about by a direct act of his hereditary deity.
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Muslims
1. Give up the idea that the Quran is the most beautiful poetry ever written, the most perfect Arabic ever set to ink, the closest we can approach God in the scheme of time. Are you inhaling this stuff or just smoking? You have two hundred poets whose Arabic is better, any one of which could have won in a slam-down with Gabriel.
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Judaism
1. There are no chosen people. There are just people. It is depressing, isn’t it? We all want to be special.
(via friendlyatheist.com)
Like Hemant says on Friendly Atheist, #4 under Judaism might require a bit of an exception, but otherwise this is a pretty dead-on accurate list.
"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
— [Usenet] (via dreamslaughter)
If the Bible proves that God exists then comic books prove the existence of Superman.
(via sarawho)
Could this be the beginning of Sharia Law?!? (via FreeRefugee)
I have no words for this, other than to say that I don’t believe the same level of apprehension would have been displayed on television if it were Christianity rather than Islam.
Friendly Atheist by @hemantmehta » Chicago Coalition of Reason Billboard Goes Up
I wish I had one near me, frankly (though without the Chicago bit - that might confuse people). Instead, there’s at least one version of a “Jesus is Coming” billboard a couple blocks away. Sigh.
