Nay Theist/Quotes
"Think someone could spend half their life in a slam with a horse bit in their mouth and not believe? Think he could start out in some liquor store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe? Got it all wrong, holy man. I absolutely believe in God... And I absolutely hate the fucker."
—Richard B. Riddick, Pitch Black
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[Hawkgirl is poised over Icthultu's exposed brain.] —Justice League, "The Terror Beyond"
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An omnipotent, all-knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified.
—Karen Armstrong, A History of God
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"Can you interfere arbitrarily with what I am doing? Yes -- physically. No -- mentally. Can a brick kill me? Yes. Can a brick get into my mind and tell me what to do? No. Can an omnipotent being do that? Yes. An omnipotent being, by definition, is a totalitarian dictator. Ah, but he won't use his power? Never mind. He has it."
—Ayn Rand in a letter
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"A god like that was not worth a prayer."
—Polly Perks, Monstrous Regiment
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"Well, it's little I know—and less I'm wishful to know—of gods. But this I do know: I've seen naught at all, at all, to make me want to bow down and worship you. And, meaning no disrespect, I'd as soon have naught at all to do with you, if you take my meaning."
—Bahzell Bahnakson to Tomonak, God of Justice, Oath of Swords
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He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. |
"You do remember logic, don't you? It's the part of your brain that weeps every time you kneel down and pray to a glorified petting zoo."
—Girard, The Order of the Stick
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
—Epicurus
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It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.
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If there is any kind of supreme being, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.
—Lord Vetinari, Unseen Academicals
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I accept that you exist. I don't have to accept what you are, but your physical existence, I give you that.
—The Doctor, "The Satan Pit"
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