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Anti-Religion part 2

Bill Maher — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:36:17 +0000

“Whenever a cult leader sets himself up as God’s infallible wingman, here on Earth, lock away the kids. Which is why I’d like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religous cult. Its leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. That’s right, the Pope is coming to America this week and ladies, he’s single! Cults get raided, religions get parades.”

Anti-Religion

Bill Maher — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:29:44 +0000

“You can’t be a rational person six days a wekk and on one day of the week, go to a building, and think you are drinking the blood of a two thousand year old space god. That doesn’t make you a person of faith…, that makes you a schizophrenic.”

Being Muslim is Grand

Bob Kerrey — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:02:10 +0000

“I like the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that his father was a Muslim and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim…There’s a billion people on the planet that are Muslims, and I think that experience is a big deal.”

No forgiveness for Falwell

Christopher Hitchens — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:18:33 +0000

“… I think it’s a pity there isn’t a hell for [Jerry Falwell] to go to…The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing, that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called reverend…People like that should be out in the street, shouting and hollering with a cardboard sign and selling pencils from a cup….He was a conscious charlatan and bully and fraud. And I think, if he read the Bible at all – and I would doubt that he could actually read any long book of — at all — that he did so only in the most hucksterish, as we say, Bible-pounding way.”

Religion “poisons everything”

Christopher Hitchens — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:11:18 +0000

“[Religion is] violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children.”

Undermining Christianity

Philip Pullman — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:34:02 +0000

“I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.”

My books are about killing God

Philip Pullman — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:03:04 +0000

“My books are about killing God.”

Religion major contender as “root of all evil”

Richard Dawkins — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:59:17 +0000

“Religion may not be the root of all evil, but it is a serious contender. Even so it could be justified, if only its claims were true. Even so it could be justified, if only its claims were true. But they are undermined by science and reason. Imagine a world where nobody is intimidated against following reason, wherever it leads.”

God of Old Testament is “unpleasant”

Richard Dawkins — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:54:02 +0000

“The God of the Old Testament has got to be the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous, and proud of it, pretty, vindictive, unjust, unforgiving, racist.”

Religion falsely passed on by parents to kids

Richard Dawkins — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:47:16 +0000

“Innocent children are being saddled with demonstrable falsehoods. It’s time to question the abuse of childhood innocence with superstitious ideas of hellfire and damnation. Isn’t it weird the way we automatically label a tiny child with its parents’ religion?”