Principles like "liberté, egalité, fraternité" really seem to me
the least common denominator at all latitudes. Religions resist?
Fuck religions. - Vincenzo Matera
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Religions (plural) add nothing to my life except problems or limitations,
so I'm not interested in them. - Eugenio Morassi, April 2005
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What's exciting to me about computers is it's an area where humans,
notorious for not getting along, especially politically and religiously,
have co-created some awesomely complicated yet working technology. It's
a metaphor for civilization itself. - Kirby Urner, May 2005
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If there's one thing that religions are good at, it's giving people
axioms, and axioms don't have to be rational. You can make up the
craziest religion you can think of, and people will still follow it,
because it makes them function better. - Phillip J. Eby, August 2005
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Christmas is an ancient Pagan/Babylonian mid-winter festival, which the
Christian religion tagged onto. The beliefs surrounding this period may
be bollocks, but in a free society we must have the freedom to follow
and celebrate bollocks or we cannot claim to be free, except to agree,
and that's no freedom at all. - David Icke, December 2005
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...you should prevent your beliefs about how things are from being
contaminated by how you wish they were. Most people let them mix
pretty promiscuously. The continuing popularity of religion is the
most visible index of that. - Paul Graham, January 2006
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You may think your religion deserves more respect than others,
but I don't. No one is entitled to that kind of "respect".
 - Richard M. Stallman
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Can [the "Da Vinci Code" film] compete [in absurdity] with the belief that
"God" sent his only begotten son to die on a cross, disappear from a tomb,
fly to heaven off a hilltop and consign everyone to hell who refuses to
accept that he is their "saviour"? I think not. When it comes to drivel,
the Roman Church plays Superbowl. - David Icke, May 2006
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Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc. [...] sacred books are so contradictory
that you can justify almost anything with a quote from their manipulated
pages. "God" must be a schizophrenic. - David Icke, October 2006
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The Christian religion, like those of Judaism, Islam and all the rest,
are manufactured belief systems to keep their advocates in mental and
emotional servitude, while being played off against each other
to divide and rule. - David Icke, February 2007
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[Some] people [...] need a god (or God) outside themselves to feel like
life is meaningful. The most anti-nihilistic way to live is to understand
that life itself is meaningful enough without imagining or creating some
external meaning. - Anne Truitt Zelenka, March 2007