Atheist Quotes

Being an atheist's quote however. 'the quote needn't pertain to god. I've said the same thing in a different and better way.
It is as vain for the aboriginal to think the airplane pilot a god as it is for the airplane pilot to think the aboriginal primitive.

 

Go post in my thread in the Christianity forum Noxious, Id be interested in hearing a response from you which is not so blantantly charged with emotions and bias.

 

bullshit.
being an atheist quote is all about religious belief or belief in the supernatural, as is pointed out numerous time in said quote.

If a person were to wish it be considered absent any type of religious connotations or undertones, then don't present it as an atheist quote because doing so puts it squarely in that arena.

 

The word is not atheist but atheist's, wouldn't shit one of my favorite turds.

 

is that better

gee, I'm so honored.... :crowngrin:

 

It was sufficient the first time for what it states. I'm lending the benefit of saving face to the technicality.

 

already have, in response to desos.

don't assume you know my perspective or beliefs, because all that does is prevent you from honestly hearing what I may say.

and it's not emotionally charged for the reasons you assume. It is so charged because that quote really is pretty friggin basic and juvenile and the fact that people hold that type of nonsense and reasoning up for praise is both hilarious and scary at the same time.

I read it and think, yeah, no shit, what's your point Dawkins?

it is kinda like saying fire is hot.

 

yes, but my face is not in need of being saved as what I stated isn't inaccurate.

 

"One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms—had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would like to think—though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one—that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell."

-Christopher Hitchens

 

A personal appeal might embarrass you. He invited you to another thread. The jury is never out on innocence. I do not judge you. You defend yourself against me for no reason other than you think I might have smudged it a little.

 

One must state it plainly the fear of god comes from our infancy, not understanding the majesty that we are born into emerging from a dark yet cozy womb. Religion came because we thought we did something wrong.

 

and I have posted in that thread, even prior to seeing this one, so again, HUH?

 

I didn't see it so i'm going on what has transpired here and my dealings with him.. I have found him to be generally polite and it would be out of character for him to be duplicitous on purpose. That is why I was taken aback for a moment by his comment about what I said. I have noticed that debate can be for him by hook or by crook but that doesn't point to any lack of decency, it is just the nature of debate.
So again huh back to you. Why do think I besmirch you or don't understand you?
So anyway I'll go look see how your comments there relate to what happened here.

 

just messin with ya.
I hold GB in very high regard for a variety of reasons.
I have considered him a friend for many years and continue to do so.
But friends gotta give each other grief from time to time . :clown:

 

Good grief it is then.

 

right there is where he brings it into that arena, plus we all know Dawkins agenda, so again I say...Seriously?????

 

It is a good analogy in my opinion to smugness. It is as vain for an aboriginal to think an airplane pilot a god as it is for an airplane pilot to believe an aboriginal primitive. Put the airplane pilot in their jungle or put the aboriginal in the airplane the position they find themselves is the same. The only difference between now and then is our tools are more refined and so we can perceive with ever greater understanding the unseen forces that surprise us.

 

I can speak to dawkins on an equal footing about these subjects only difference is I don't have to paid because I didn't have to by a certificate of education.

The smugness comes from academic inbreeding, you have to have a pedigree to get in. But you won't learn how to care for a child that way.