defaithed's Quotes

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

The most merciful thing an omnicient God might do is end the life of a child whom he knows will never seek Him.

What evangelical apologists are still trying to show... is that their version of the resurrection was the most compatible with accepting all the details of the gospel Easter narratives as true and non-negotiable... [D]efenders of the resurrection assume that their opponents agree with them that all the details are true, that only the punch line is in question. What they somehow do not see is that to argue thus is like arguing that the Emerald City of Oz must actually exist since, otherwise, where would the Yellow Brick Road lead?... We simply have no reason to assume that anything an ancient narrative tells us is true.

Consider: every devout Muslim has the same reasons for being a Muslim that you have for being a Christian. And yet you do not find their reasons compelling... Why don't you lose any sleep over whether to convert to Islam? Can you prove that Allah is not the one, true God? Can you prove that the archangel Gabriel did not visit Muhammad in his cave? Of course not. But you need not prove any of these things to reject the beliefs of Muslims as absurd. The burden is upon them to prove that their beliefs about God and Muhammad are valid. They have not done this. They cannot do this... The truth is, you know exactly what it is like to be an atheist with respect to the beliefs of Muslims. Isn't it obvious Muslims are fooling themselves? Isn't it obvious that anyone who thinks that the Koran is the perfect word of the creator of the universe has not read the book critically?... Understand that the way you view Islam is precisely the way devout Muslims view Christianity. And it is the way I view all religions." .

The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him.

The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border.