"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further"
Richard Dawkins
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
Blaise Pascal, De l'art de persuader
“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
Blaise Pascal
“All the vital questions have been dumped in favour of half-baked, po-faced rituals which are basically a form of middle class rain dance. Still, it did give me the chapel scene in The meaning of life.
John Cleese
Richard Dawkins
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
Blaise Pascal, De l'art de persuader
“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
Blaise Pascal
“All the vital questions have been dumped in favour of half-baked, po-faced rituals which are basically a form of middle class rain dance. Still, it did give me the chapel scene in The meaning of life.
John Cleese
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)