If you need the threat

"If you need the threat of eternal torture in order to be a good person, you're not a good person."

This who describe animals

"Those who describe animals as not having any thoughts of feelings come closer to that description than the animals they are trying to describe." -Edward Alberola

You Think Religion Should Be Taught In School?

"You think religion should be taught in school? All of them?... Or just yours?"

Science is not anti-religion

"Science is not anti-religion, reality is; science is simply the means by which reality is brought to light." -Michael Sherlock

Indoctrination

Are You There God?

Ingersoll- If Christ rose from the dead?

"If Christ rose from the dead, why did he not appear to is enemies? Why did he not call on Caiaphas, the high priest? Why did he not make another triumphant entry into Jerusalem?" -Robert Ingersoll

A Proud Easter Tradition

Nietzsche- In Christianity

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." -Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't Reason! Just Obey!

"Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirt. Satan will attempt to fill your child with worry, reasoning, fear, depression, and discouraging negative thoughts. Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense- if it is not logical- we may be tempted to disregard it.  What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense. Don't reason! Just Obey." -Joyce Meyer

So, if I understand her reasoning... am I supposed to follow her advice? Can you use reasoning to advocate against reasoning?

We Should Have A Conversation.

"All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty- and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I'm telling you I arrived at it irrationally." -Same Harris

Programming You Received As A Child

"You're not responsible for the programming you received as a child. However, now as an adult, you're 100% responsible for fixing it."

Sacrificing An Immortal Being

"I always wondered why sacrificing an immortal being has any inherent value. It's rather like being impressed and amazed by the bravery of someone getting a haircut. You do understand it grows back, right?"

Bill Nye- "The Earth is not 6,000..."

"The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs." -Bill Nye

Do Something Worthwhile Here And Now

The Holy Spirit

I think you'd be hard pressed to find two believers of any faith that don't have their own unique version of that faith.

If god talks to us

It's almost as if god is just something that each believer creates in his own mind.

Hitchens- "Is it too modern to notice..."

"Is it too modern to notice that there is nothing [in the ten commandments] about the protection of children from cruelty, nothing about rape, nothing about slavery, and nothing about genocide? Or is it too exactingly 'in context' to notice that some of these very offenses are about to be positively recommended?" -Christopher Hitchens

Why the Jews Don't Believe in Jesus

<SARCASM>But, mostly it's just because the devil hardened their hearts and turned them into a bunch of Christ deniers/killers.</SARCASM>

Hypatia of Alexandria - Fables should be taught as fables

"Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To tech superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them." -Hypatia of Alexandria

Hitchens - "The gods that we've made"

Amen, Mr. Hitchens, amen.