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Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Say NO to Religon!!

It has been been highjacked by the evil ones and has become the opium of the people!!

Some quotes which ring true!

"Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people."

- Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

– Anonymous

It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

– Mark Twain

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

– Robert Pirsig

Animals do not have gods, they are smarter than that.

– Ronnie Snow

"A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing."

- Robert Ingersoll, Individuality

"Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme."

- Bernard Katz

"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."

- Ferdinand Magellan

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"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."

- Gene Roddenberry

"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated."

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, founder of American Atheists.

"Out of convicted rapists, 57% admitted to reading pornography. 95% admitted to reading the Bible."

- Anon

"Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religionseveral of them."

-Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. journalist, lecturer, author

"Christianity is so unbelievable and so contrary to everyday observation on its surface, that the only way in which people can maintain such an untenable set of beliefs is by constant reinforcement."

-Gordon Stein, Ph.D.

'The difference between being 'devout' and being 'nuts':

1. "I am Napoleon." Nobody else agrees. Youre nuts.
2. "This wafer is transubstantiated into the body of Christ.” Millions agree. You're devout.

-Thomas Szasz

"No gods, no masters."

-Margaret Sanger (1883-1966)

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

-Carl Sagan

Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies, each with two hundred billion stars, then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?

-Ron Patterson

"A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

-Frederick Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike."

-Delos B. McKown, Ph.D., U.S. professor, philosopher, author & former clergyman

"God"who is said to have created everything from nothing, and to have done so with no help from anyone is now completely helpless to do anything at all without the assistance of an army of clergymen and the charity of a flock of faithful followers.

-Rev. Donald Morgan

"The Belief that man is outfitted with an immortal soul, differing altogether from the engines which operate the lower animals, is ridiculously unjust to them. The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest mansay a Tennessee Holy Rolleris really very small, and the difference between the decentest dog and the worst man is all in favor of the dog."

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

"Theology: The effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.'

-H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis."
[when asked by Napoleon why he had not mentioned God in his "Mecanique Celeste"]

-Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) French astronomer, mathematician

"I tell christians, "If you had two children and one had to be bribed (heaven) and threatened (hell) to do what he was supposed to do, and the other one just did it because thats what he knew was the right thing to do, which would you consider the better person?"

-Greg Irwin, President of the Humanist Association of Canada

"It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring."

-Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) U.S. military officer, attorney, orator

Science uncovers questions that may never be answered. Religion is based on answers that may never be questioned.

-Ken Harding

"If all the achievements of theologians were wiped out tomorrow, would anyone notice the smallest difference?"

-Richard Dawkins, Oxford biologist

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesnt go away.

-Philip K. Dick

Worship God. Its easier than thinking.

-Chapman Cohen (1868-1954)

"To put ones trust in God is only a way of saying that one will chance it."

-Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

"Truth does not have to be accepted on faith. Scientists do not hold hands every Sunday, singing, "Yes gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! Amen."

-Dan Barker, former evangelist, author, critic

"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."

-Giordano Bruno

"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.'

-Isaac Asimov

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever would believe in him would believe probably in anything."

-Anonymous

Televangelist: A charismatic good ol' boy with the power to perform miracles, such as transforming the donations of dirt-poor believers into a thirty-room mansion

-Anonymous

"Religion: A bad idea gone wrong."

-Anonymous

"Religion: Safer than a lobotomy, but just as effective."

-Anonymous

"Out of convicted rapists, 57 admitted to reading pornography. 95 admitted to reading the Bible."

"Theists think all gods but theirs are false. Atheists simply don't make an exception for the last one."

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."

- Seneca the Younger

"I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other gods you will understand why I dismiss yours."

- Stephen F. Roberts

"One might be asked "How can you prove that a god does not exist?" One can only reply that it is scarcely necessary to disprove what has never been proved."

- David A. Spitz

"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."

- Ferdinand Magellan

"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."

-Author Unknown

"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."

- Author Unknown

"If god doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you."

"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color."

-Don Hirschberg

"No subsequent study has ever shown any reproducible benefit of prayer.
Try your own: Hope in one hand and piss in the other. See which fills up first."

-From internet post

"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church.

An Atheist believes that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said.

An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

He wants disease conquered, poverty vanquished, war eliminated.

He wants man to understand and love man."

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

- Steven Roberts

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence."

- Bertrand Russell

"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."

'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.'

-Gene Roddenberr

"Without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

- Steven Weinberg

"Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."

- Thomas Jefferson

'Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?'

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish."

"Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one."

- Richard Dawkins

'The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion.' - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States

"You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate."

- Richard A. Weatherwax

"They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing."

- Steven Weinberg

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"

- Epicurus

"It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image."

- Ludwig Feuerbach

Dum tempus habemus, operemur bonum

While we have the time, let us do good

Cave ab homine unius libri

Beware of anyone who has just one book. (Latin Epigram)

Monday, 27 September 2010

Full marks to Benigno Aquino, BRAVO!

Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III
born February 8, 1960)
also known as Noynoy Aquino or PNoy,
is the fifteenth and the current President of the Philippines.

President Benigno Aquino's stand regarding contraception, as reported by AFP today, 27th September 2010, deserves accolades for his stand against the RC Church in the Philippines.

Please read the news item below.

Unwanted pregnancies should always be prevented

The Roman Catholic Church needs to get real, the priorities need to be adjusted.

In most, if not all ,developing countries with a large RC population, the vast majority of people are very poor, the Philippines is a prime example.

One of the reasons for this poverty is the very large number of children born tnto poor families who are denied access to free family planing education and contraception.

In my humble opinion the governments and the people of all nations should stand up against all archaic, oppressive, demeaning and illogical religious teachings which are detrimental to their prosperity, welfare, good health and well-being.

The Roman Catholic is filthy rich whilst their followers are generally as poor as church mice, how shameful this is!

Especially in poor countries with a high birth rate, more instruction, material and moral encouragement and free, or very cheap, and easily accessible contraception methods are absolutely vital.

"MANILA - THE Philippine government will provide contraceptives to poor couples who request it despite strong opposition from the dominant Roman Catholic church, President Benigno Aquino said on Monday.

Speaking in a satellite television interview from the United States where he is on a seven-day visit, Mr Aquino stressed that the number of children a couple had was a matter of personal choice.

'The government is obligated to inform everybody of their responsibilities and their choices. At the end of the day, government might provide assistance to those who are without means if they want to employ a particular method,' he said.

'I believe the couple will be in the best position to determine what is best for the family, how to space (the births), what methods they can rely on and so forth,' said Mr Aquino at a 'town hall' style meeting with expatriate Filipinos.

'They face the responsibility for the children that they bring in and government is willing to assist them.' Mr Aquino, a 50-year-old bachelor and a practising Catholic, was responding to questions about how he planned to curb population growth in the face of opposition from the church.

The church wields considerable influence in the Philippines, where more than 80 per cent of the population are Catholics, and has used its clout in the past to attack officials who champion artificial methods of birth control." -- AFP

The humble condom, is a god-send for the poor.

Dira necessitas

The dire necessity. (Horace)

Dum tempus habemus, operemur bonum

While we have the time, let us do good

Monday, 19 July 2010

Un-Islamic Football Jerseys

ENGLAND

KOSMO! a Malaysian tabloid rag popular amongst the Malay Language readers, which is well known for homing in on sensational news, recently carried a report about Muslims who wear football jerseys which display images of crosses, liquor brands and devils.

Johor Religious Council adviser Nooh Gadot reportedly said wearing such jerseys was forbidden in Islam.

“It is as if Muslims are worshipping and exalting the symbols of other religions. Islam does not compromise on this matter, regardless of whether it is worn for fun, fashion or sport,” he said.

Perak Mufti Harussani Zakaria was reported to have agreed with Nooh, saying, although Islam did not forbid its followers from participating in sports or dressing up, it has to be done within the boundaries of Islamic law.

Among the football teams whose crests carry images of the cross are England, Brazil, Portugal, Serbia, Barcelona and Norway, while Manchester United carries the “Red Devil” on its crest.

Malaysia seems to be becoming more like Iran with each passing week.

What next, goons going around spotting 'non-Islamic hair styles' and cutting the hair of transgressors?

BARCELONA

How utterly stupid and pathetic, have the religious authorities nothing better to do than concentrate on such trivia?

How about them getting stuck into reducing the high incidences of rape, incest, drug addition, anti-social behaviour, abandoning of new-born babies etc., all of which are, as is common knowledge and which has been extensively reported in Malaysian news media, more common amongst the Malays, who are Muslims, than among others in Malaysia?

Utterly Pathetic Stupidity!

Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?

By Bertrand Russell

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilization. It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others.

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Saturday, 20 March 2010

SOME EXAMPLES OF SHAMEFUL BEHAVOUR BY THE SEEMINGLY RELIGIOUS!

ISLAM

SAUDI ARABIA

Amnesty International is calling on Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to stop the execution of a Lebanese man sentenced to death for "sorcery."

According to Arab News, an English language Saudi daily newspaper, after the most recent verdict was issued, the judges in Medina issued a statement expressing that Sibat deserved to be executed for having continually practiced black magic on his show, adding that this sentence would deter others from practicing sorcery. Arab News reports that the case will now return to the appeals court in Mecca.

Read this news HERE

MALAYSIA

Extracts:

20 March 2010

Guests at the Penarik Inn here were flabbergasted by the actions of a group of men said to be from the state Religious Affairs Department (JHEAT) who conducted a raid yesterday morning.

Guests claimed they were rudely awakened at 2.25am by loud, incessant banging on their chalet doors…….

He said during the raid yesterday, a couple was taken away by the group and were only sent back at 6am after they proved that they were legally married.

"It was a harrowing experience for them. They checked out immediately and I don't know if they will ever stay at my chalet again."