time changes everything

everything changes with time

Praying is hilarious.
Surely, [God] knows what you want already?
"I just want to hear you say it! Beg!
That's better. I'll think about it."

- Ricky Gervais

Purist: Praying is hilarious.
Surely, [God] knows what you want already?
"I just want to hear you say it! Beg!
That's better. I'll think about it."

- Ricky Gervais

If the said Ricky Gervais thinks that prayer is about begging, then he would have to be a most shallow excuse for a being gifted with human sentience.

^^ That was not his point.

^^^ Oh yes it was. Or else he has a hopelessly shallow conception of the word "prayer."

^^ Again, that was NOT his point.

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

- George Bernard Shaw

There is a growing trend in this country that needs to be called out, and that is to label any evidence-based belief a "religion." Many conservatives now say that a belief in man-made climate change is a "religion," and Darwinism is a "religion," and of course atheism -- the total lack of religion -- is somehow a "religion" too, according to the always reliable Encyclopedia Moronica.

- Bill Maher

This is from a book I've been reading...So not quotes from a real life atheist, but they will do, I think...

SPOILERS, IF YOU INTEND TO READ FIRST LAW FROM ABERCOMBRIE, IGNORE THIS POST

Convo for context,

"He slapped a hand down on Temple’s shoulder and Temple twitched, heard a squeal and turned just in time to see an old woman kicked from the precipice.
‘Oh God.’
‘Exactly what I mean!’ Cosca slapped him on the shoulder again. ‘But if there is a God, why in all these years has He not raised a hand to stop me?’
‘Perhaps we are His hand,’ rumbled Jubair, who had stepped from a doorway wiping blood from his sword with a cloth. ‘His ways are mysterious.’
Cosca snorted. ‘A whor3 with a veil is mysterious. God’s ways appear to be . . . insane.’"

.......................................

In the context of the post about prayer above..

"‘Prayer is arrogance,’ intoned Jubair. ‘The hope of man to change the will of God. But God’s plan is set and His words already spoken.’"

..............................................

"Ashjid stood in the midst, eyes bulging with fervour, sinewy arms stretched up to the pouring heavens, the Fellowship’s idiot kneeling at his feet, the whole like a sculpture of some martyred Prophet. ‘There is no running from the sky!’ he was shrieking, finger outstretched. ‘There is no hiding from God! God is always watching!’
It seemed to Temple he was that most dangerous kind of priest – one who really believes. ‘Have you ever noticed that God is wonderful at watching,’ he called, ‘but quite poor when it comes to helping out?’"


Note, Ashjid was the only one that died in that scene. Not sure why god chose to kill only him, the only believer present no less..
...............................................

Jubair solemnly nodded. ‘He is a terrible and a merciless God and all things must bend to His design.’

PS: this Jubair guy was awesome throughout the book, dispatching god's will relish
...............................................

If there was a God, the world seemed exactly the way it would be if there wasn’t one.

hmmm... how did I miss this thread?

We should include some from the atheists here... I'll be back.. surely...

Purist: God:
"You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you shall surely die."

Serpent:
“You surely will not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Adam:
“The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”

Eve:
“The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.”

Afterwards, God:
“Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil."

Of four actors in this scene, only one lie was told. . .

blood of jesus!!!

^^^actually, only one truth was told and that was by the Great Serpent, maker of Heaven and earth, My creator and Savior

The ignorant base the evidence of their god on their ignorance

Ooman