Fun Quotations

Here are some fun quotes from some very smart and very famous people regarding religion! Hope you folks get a chuckle out of them, as I did.

Side note: This blog has been neglected by me over the last two months. I have been busily working on a different project, namely "Clockworld", and it will likely take up most of my writing time for the indeterminate future. I hope to return to working on my philosophy after the completion of Clockworld.

Gene Roddenberry - "We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."

Michael Shermer - "In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.

Jonathan Swift - "We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough religion to make us love one another."

Mark Twain - "Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light … by contrast."

Napoleon Bonaparte - "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

Robert G. Ingersoll - " Hands that help are far better then lips that pray."

Magellan - "The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church."

President George Washington - "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." (Treaty Of Tripoli, 1796)

President Thomas Jefferson - "History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose."

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” –Benjamin Franklin

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.” –Benjamin Franklin

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” –Benjamin Franklin

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” –Benjamin Franklin

“Games lubricate the body and the mind.” –Benjamin Franklin

“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.” –Benjamin Franklin

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” –Benjamin Franklin

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.” –Benjamin Franklin

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” –Benjamin Franklin

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” –Benjamin Franklin

“The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.” –Benjamin Franklin

“To follow by Faith alone is to follow blindly.” –Benjamin Franklin

“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” –Benjamin Franklin