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How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette?

How come when it's us, it's an 'abortion', and when it's a chicken, it's an 'omelette'?

— George Carlin

You can't convince a believer of anything

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.

— Carl Sagan

Faith has fallen. What goes in its place? Wonder.

Faith has fallen. What goes in its place? Wonder.

— Peter Boghossian

A Manual for Creating Atheists

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

— Richard Dawkins

The God Delusion

create a heaven on Earth now

What do I think happens when we die? It's the same as it was before I was here -- which makes it incumbent upon us to create a heaven on Earth now, and not hell.

— Sting

God would rather you bang anything that moves.

Pope Francis: "...sins of the flesh were certainly sins but not as great as sins such as...pride..."

Stephen Colbert: "So if you are proud of yourself for not having an affair, God would rather you bang anything that moves."

— Stephen Colbert

45 thousand 'shards' of Christianity

45 thousand 'shards' of Christianity

— Raymond Griffith

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The Washington Post, January 1984

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Science literacy empowers you to know when someone else is full of shit.

Science literacy empowers you to know when someone else is full of shit.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson