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"Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do every minute of the day.
And the invisible man has a list of 10 specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any if these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning
and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever; and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time.
But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow he just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!...."
- George Carlin (click here to read full text)
"Knowledge is knowing that we can not know" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge." - Confucius
"Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies." - Thomas Jefferson
"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." - Abraham Lincoln
"I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood." - George Carlin
Scientist estimate that the Milky Way galaxy contains at least 100 billion stars (some estimates are as high as 400 billion stars).
To count to 100 billion, you would have to spend over 30 lifetimes (over 3,000 years) counting nonstop to get to 100,000,000,000. (100 billion)
"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic.
If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism..."
- Albert Einstein
"What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem."
- Bertrand Russell
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